Hi Richard, On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Hi, > > I am well aware that with the API freeze, my idea might be too late > anyway, on the other hand, a major version number change would > be the perfect opportunity to implement a plan like this. > > > My proposal is simple: > > Use ~/.etc/kde4/ for configuration and data instead of ~/.kde4/ for > KDE4. > > Rationale: > > 1) Reduces clutter of the user's home directory. > > 2) Puts everything into one place (I will be trying to sway some > other major apps over the next weeks and months) > > 3) Follows the layout of Unix configurations and basic data by > imitating /etc/ > > 4) Makes keeping personal etc files in a version control system > even easier (does probably not apply to KDE) The XDG base dir spec [1] uses ~/.config and a couple of projects and even companies already use that. Additionally to the user-local directory it also specifies a global path list (similar to $PATH) and environment variables to override them. > As KDE already uses ~/.kde4 , the basic idea of grouping those > files in one common location is already implemented. Look at > ~/.etc as a logical consequence of applying this idea to all of the > user's etc files. One of the things is that KDE does not only need a config directory, but several other resource directories as well. While the base dir spec [1] also specifies directories for cache and data, KDE additionally has directories for sockets, temporary files, etc. The rational to have all of them under the same ~/.kde/ directory (overrideable by KDEHOME) is basically a bit like yours, i.e. not to clutter the home directory with several subdirectories but only one. However, I agree that we could have a look at using XDG_DATA_HOME/kde4 for application data and XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kde4 for configuration. It's a bit late now for 4.0 and unfortunately any later version will have to take care of backwards compatability as well. Cheers, Kevin [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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