On Friday 05 October 2007, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > I think that your idea can be simply implemented by putting kde4 files > > into ~/.etc/kde4, and add a symbolic link to ~/.kde4 for KDE4 > > compatibility. This way we even do not have to change $KDEHOME > > environment variable. What do you think about this? > > Not good, at least not with kde3. I use to symlink the version, > like .kde-3.5.6 --> .kde/ so I could do backups by version before > upgrading. when I ditched the idea someday because.. I reinstalled or so I > didn't create the symlink and nothing worked. grepping thru the dir quickly > produced that the symlink name was put it everywhere where ".kde/" should > have been. Cleaning this mess up took me a full day. > > apart from that I love the idea of having ~/.etc in general. This seriously > should be a standard, it's way better than tons of ~/.<appname> dirs. You probably missed my answer to the thread starter, but there is basically a standard and it is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, defaulting to $HOME/.config Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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