I do dislike grouping unrelated application settings into ~/.gconf -- before, if you screwed up a setting you could always just rm -rf .<whatever>, without losi

I do dislike grouping unrelated application settings into ~/.gconf -- before, if you screwed up a setting you could always just rm -rf .<whatever>, without losing anything unrelated. Oh, God yes. It's awful. There are severe usability problems with lumping everything together. (Of course, this is outside the issue of the original post.) In addition, if GConf is the One True Way to store Gnome settings, why do I have ~/.gconf, ~/.gconfd, ~/.gnome, ~/.gnome-rdp.db, ~/.gnome2, ~/.gnome2-private, ~/.gpilotd, ~/.gpilotd.pid, and ~/.gtk-bookmarks?