On Sunday 20 December 2015 02:02:39 Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 20.12.2015 um 01:58 schrieb Rex Dieter: > > Reindl Harald wrote: > >> Am 20.12.2015 um 01:41 schrieb Rex Dieter: > >>> Felix Miata wrote: > >>>> Rex Dieter composed on 2015-12-19 17:03 (UTC-0600): > >>>>> kf5/plasma5 applications use: > >>>>> > >>>>> config: ~/.config > >>>> > >>>> Disturbing that K5 puts 2-3 times as much or more directly in > >>>> ~/.config/ > >>>> than all other apps put there combined, making it a big mess, nasty to > >>>> selectively backup or restore, instead of using .config/plasma and/or > >>>> .config/kde5 and/or something else neat and clean as ~/.kde and ~/.kde4 > >>>> were, and ~/.config/libreoffice, ~/.config/mc, ~/.config/smplayer, > >>>> ~/.config/chromium and others are. Did upstream ever discuss this > >>>> clutter and decide it posed no problem being so different from other > >>>> apps? > >>> > >>> Disturbing or not, it's a welcome change to *me* that kde is now using > >>> XDG standard locations, see references to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and > >>> XDG_DATA_HOME on > >>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > >>> > >>> NOTE: you can adjust these environment variables to suit your own needs > >>> if you prefer something other than their default locations > >> > >> but you can not say which and how many files of a KDE application part > >> of the configuration > > > > You're advocating that kde *not* follow XDG standard specifications? > > i am advocating not follows *human understandable* locations > > what are my *current* kate setting to duplicate on another machine or > just to backup and restore? > > [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ locate /home/harry/ | grep kate > /home/harry/.config/katepartrc > /home/harry/.config/katerc > /home/harry/.config/kateschemarc > /home/harry/.config/katesyntaxhighlightingrc > /home/harry/.config/katevirc > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefiletemplates > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefindinfilesplugin > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katepart > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katequickdocumentswitcher > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/default.katesession > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/fsbookmarks.xml > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/kateui.rc > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/sessions > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/filetree > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/findinfiles > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/katecloseexceptplugin > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/katefiletemplates > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/katekonsole > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/katequickdocumentswitcher > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/project > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/sessions/Standardsitzung.katesession > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefiletemplates/plugins > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefiletemplates/plugins/katefiletemplates > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefindinfilesplugin/plugins > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefindinfilesplugin/plugins/findinfiles > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katepart/katepartui.rc > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katequickdocumentswitcher/plugins > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katequickdocumentswitcher/plugins > /home/harry/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata > /home/harry/.kde/share/config/katepartindentjscriptrc > /home/harry/.kde/share/config/katepartpluginsrc > /home/harry/.kde/share/config/katepartscriptrc > /home/harry/.kde/share/config/katerc > /home/harry/.kde/share/config/katercJ13485.new > /home/harry/.kde/share/config/kateschemarc > /home/harry/.kde/share/config/katescriptingrc > /home/harry/.kde/share/config/katesyntaxhighlightingrc > /home/harry/.local/share/kate > /home/harry/.local/share/applications/kde4-kate.desktop > /home/harry/.local/share/kate/anonymous.katesession > /home/harry/.local/share/kate/sessions > /home/harry/.local/share/kxmlgui5/kate > /home/harry/.local/share/kxmlgui5/katepart > /home/harry/.local/share/kxmlgui5/kate/kateui.rc > /home/harry/.local/share/kxmlgui5/katepart/katepart5ui.rc Wow... this is looking like the inisdes of the registry. With configuration paramaters all over the tree and not knowing what is configured where. Extensible app is fantastic. Different config files for different parts OK, understandable. But why does anyone need to be an engineer to find them let alone figure out what each one is for? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
