On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:55 AM, ha <hiei.arh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Ralph, I guess it would do it. > But I didn't plan to separate the conf files completely, I was hoping for a > solution more alike Wilko's (if it works). > After all we all have .config file in our home directory. > It makes sense that all applications write their conf files there, instead > "randomly" all around home directory. I was hoping for a way to force that. > I do not know if this is possible, nor how to do it. > It's funny that /etc is so well organized, but noone cares to do the same > with the conf files *for users*. > ...or is it just me?
I agree... once there where not so very many dotfiles in ~, so it was less of an issue. Anyway, I try to file wishlist/enhancement bugs on programs I use, asking them to follow (at least optionally) the XDG Base Directory Specification: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html Hopefully as I get better at programming I can offer patches with my bugs as well. I am really happy with the spec; ~/.local/share, ~/.cache and ~/.config make sense to me, and the way the spec is written it is easy for a user to customize the locations (since they are env vars, not hardcoded). There is a little library as well to make things even easier (libxdg-basedir). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=9adqdnv+hgc-f2bbfqwp6eifxc1bant9gqqgcz1+w...@mail.gmail.com