Re: Application files in $HOME
Hi, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Gimp and many others software creates dotfiles. Because from the start
> you configure it (cache size, temp dir).
>
Why should I want a per-user configuration option for temp file location?
> For their size? Apart from web browser cache, what can be so big?
>
So? Browser caches should be deleted too, when the browser is deinstalled.
Anyway, there's email readers (my .sylpheed is 73 MBytes), news readers,
picture browsers, ... my ~/.sylpheed is bigger than my ~/.kde.
> Well designed software that change their configuration file should be
> able to handle an older configuration file.
That's not the point. The point is that a program will never be able to
change the default for any option from FOO to BAR, because FOO is
hardcoded in every user's configuration file -- and it can't know whether
the user has FOO in there because they explicitly set it, or because it's
the default.
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