Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 12:57 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> So, leave them in $HOME, and create directories such as $HOME/work;
> $HOME/documents

Or even keep the hidden files in $HOME but instead of adding $HOME/work,
HOME/documents, add /home/work, /home/documents or /mnt/work etc..

FWIW I've got one user who doesn't have the home directory in /home [1],
however, regarding to what the original poster wants, I agree with Tony,
it's better to keep settings in $HOME and add other paths for data.

You also could have multiple mount points or instead add links. Btw.
people using CLI anyway could decide what they want list and IMO even
GUI file browsers provide much comfort to handle this.

Regards,
Ralf

[1]
I want to have second profiles for software that doesn't support
profiles and for Firefox, an app that does provide profiles, I want a
profile asking for a password, so I add an user account I call "chuser.
Yes, it's immature :D. Sometimes the user runs apps as another user on
my machine.

[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/chuser
#!/bin/sh

# /usr/local/bin/chuser -> /.chuser/bin/chuser

xhost +
gksudo -u chuser "$*"
xhost -
exit

[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /.chuser
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4.0K Mar 28 14:05 bin
drwx------ 14 chuser chuser 4.0K Jul  7 23:32 .home