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XFce and others config files storage
Status:
RESOLVED: INVALID
Severity:
enhancement

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Description Mindaugas 2006-11-05 18:18:57 CET
User-Agent:       Opera/9.02 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
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Personally, I allways liked structural, neat and clean applications. Not only in design, architectural and other cases, but also in such things like storage of config files. It is really not good when application makes a dump of .* files/folders in your home directory. It would be MUCH better to have a .xfce directory in home, instead of .cache, .config, .themes and probably others. User could allways know, that it is enought to copy/backup one directory on some system changes. They could allways know, that they could find all configs in a one, .xfce, directory and go to modify them. And finally, they could see some of cleanness when typing ls -la ~.
It is more political decision, rather than technicall, and of course, it is only an XFce team prerogative. Please consider this.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Jean-François Wauthy editbugs 2006-11-05 18:42:51 CET
Xfce try to implement FreeDesktop standards which recommends the layout you don't like. See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards for more info.
Comment 2 Mindaugas 2006-11-05 18:50:07 CET
Well, that is a strong argument. I can only agree. Thanks.
Comment 3 Nick Schermer editbugs 2009-07-15 09:27:55 CEST
Moving invalid bugs to the /dev/null product.

Bug #2507

Reported by:
Mindaugas
Reported on: 2006-11-05
Last modified on: 2009-07-15

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