On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 06:40:29PM +0000, Darren Kenny wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:57:09 -0800
> John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
> > > It's ${HOME}/.config by default.
> > 
> > #include "John's please don't fill my $HOME with your crap Gripe"
> > 
> >     It would really be nice (TM) if we could get all these @#...@$%
> >     features to put their crap^H^H^H^H config files one level deeper
> >     under a common .desktop or .gnome  or .whatever parent. so my
> >     home dir doesn't end up with hundreds of opaque pieces of trash
> >     that some stupid application decided to leave behind.  Better yet
> >     would be a way to not need the files in the first place.
> >     (My homedir today has over 200 "dotfiles" in it - and I have no
> >     real idea whether any of them are optional or obsolete and can be
> >     deleted or if my desktop/session will die a horrible death if I
> >     so much as touch them...
> > 
> > #end rant
> 
> But that's what this is - XDG config, which is neither GNOME or KDE specific
> uses .config as the root of it's config - if you use JDS you most likely
> already have that dir...

What else goes in ~/.config/?

In mine the only thing is gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.  Is there a precedent
for ~/.config?

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