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On the one hand this is annoying, on the other it’s great that you can just backup your home dir and have all your files and settings in one go. Also this annoyance is easy to solve, just make one dir in home (my is called after my name) and put all your own files in there.
On the one hand this is annoying, on the other it’s great that you can just backup your home dir and have all your files and settings in one go. Also this annoyance is easy to solve, just make one dir in home (my is called after my name) and put all your own files in there.
Why do programmers do this? What thought process leads to someone thinking this is a good idea?
Until there is 500 dotfiles, some long forgotten.
One thing I’ve been thinking about is that it would be nice to tag files with the program that created them. Aside from the clutter in my home directory, I have a lot of files that I have to guess as to where they originated from based on metadata like modification timestamps or permissions, but it would be nice to see something like “~/.config was created by some-tool”.
Why do programmers do this? What thought process leads to someone thinking this is a good idea?
In a way a users settings are ‘personal files’, so it can be argued they go in home.
1) Mozilla
2) Gnome
3) Gimp
4) GPG
5) Thunderbird (Why is there a sep directory and not under .mozilla)
6) mplayer
I guess one reason why this occurs is that it's easier for to be carelessly cross-platform this way. Except you'd expect better from mozilla, specially because they store Windows stuff very well inside %localappdata%
On the one hand this is annoying, on the other it’s great that you can just backup your home dir and have all your files and settings in one go. Also this annoyance is easy to solve, just make one dir in home (my is called after my name) and put all your own files in there.
To name and shame some culprits (the one's who have shame, I won't name java because I won't expect them to care) 1) Mozilla 2) Gnome 3) Gimp 4) GPG 5) Thunderbird (Why is there a sep directory and not under .mozilla) 6) mplayer I guess one reason why this occurs is that it's easier for to be carelessly cross-platform this way. Except you'd expect better from mozilla, specially because they store Windows stuff very w…
One thing I’ve been thinking about is that it would be nice to tag files with the program that created them. Aside from the clutter in my home directory, I have a lot of files that I have to guess as to where they originated from based on metadata like modification timestamps or permissions, but it would be nice to see something like “~/.config was created by some-tool”.
That is the exact problem that the standard I talk about was designed to solve (apart from the clutter in the home directory).
This doesn't help with installation, obviously, but it helps with cleanup.
On the one hand this is annoying, on the other it’s great that you can just backup your home dir and have all your files and settings in one go. Also this annoyance is easy to solve, just make one dir in home (my is called after my name) and put all your own files in there.