Randy Kramer wrote: > (If you (or someone) satisfactorily answers that, I'll go on to ask the > same questions about other non-"real user data" that gets stored in ~ > (like configurations and such).) Um... user configurations != user data? And they're stored in ~ so that they are easy to back up and can be used across machines (in a network-backed ~ environment). Also because ~ may be the only thing to which the user has write access (besides /tmp, which is obviously not right for configuration information). -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" -- Monty Python ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.