How would you feel about a .settings folder in your home directory?

[Guest]

Simple YES/NO. How would you feel about a .settings folder in your home directory to collect all the dotted (.foo) files/directories.

I personally think this would be a good thing because I like to use my home directory as a clearing house for files but find that it gets cluttered with dotted setting files and directories. I know I could use ls -l but ls -al is just so wired into my brain that I always find myself having to retype the command.

It probably sounds trivial but it is, in my opinion, one of those little details that when paid attention to can mean the difference between an enjoyable and an annoying user experience.

[Rog131]

Re: How would you feel about a .settings folder in your home directory?

> XDG Base Directory Specification:

Introduction

Various specifications specify files and file formats. This specification defines where these files should be looked for by defining one or more base directories relative to which files should be located.

Basics

The XDG Base Directory Specification is based on the following concepts:
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• There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific configuration files should be written. This directory is defined by the environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

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Environment variables
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$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.
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Many applications are using the freedesktop specification but not all.

Here with the Kubuntu 9.10:

ls -1 ~/.config

akonadi
AlexSnet
autostart
beli.ws
Bespin
CSA
Enrico Ros
gtk-2.0
hjcms.de
inkscape
kde.org
menus
qtcurve
smplayer
SpeedCrunch
Trolltech
Trolltech.conf
vlc
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