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Never understood the point of having a dotfile for all of config when config is the point of dotfiles.
by nailer 6mo ago
Never understood the point of having a dotfile for all of config when config is the point of dotfiles.
- tuckerman 6mo agoBesides cleanliness which is more a preference I agree, separating config, data, and cache makes it easy to know what can/should be backed up, what can be synced across machines, etc.
- zenoprax 6mo agoI find that there is a tendency to make too many things hidden. I just assume I'll have to show hidden items by default in all contexts now.
- wpm 6mo agoAs I said in a different comment here, I have 94 files and folders in my home, 84 of which are hidden, approximately zero of which actually needed to be hidden. If anything, it's the reason this is such a common issue, the dot lets everyone shit files out all over the place but oh it's hidden so no big deal.
- deleted 6mo ago[deleted]
- PunchyHamster 6mo agoIf all apps abode to it it would be nice because you could just backup config and skip all the other stuff. <type>/app hierarchy is much better than <app>/type because that allows for example of easily excluding ~/.cache from backups. ... but of course some apps must be super special flowers that need their own dir
- tuckerman 6mo agoYeah, I find it especially annoying when apps do use the XDG directories but use them incorrectly (dumping a bunch of state/data in .config is unfortunately too common). If apps want to do that I wish they would just grab $HOME/.appname rather than mess up my .config dir.