On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 03:54:09PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Wed, 27.07.11 10:30, Karel Zak (kzak(a)redhat.com) wrote:
> > Note that there are a number of 3rd party projects making use of
> > ~/.config/bin afaik, including jhbuild which installs its executable to
> > that dir.
>
> It would be nice to clean up $HOME, radically reduce the number of
> the subdirectories and config files in the $HOME. If *all* the garbage
> will be in ~/local/{etc,bin,lib,var/log} then nobody will care if the
> directory is hidden. My wish is
>
> $ ls -ls ~/
> drwxrwxr-x. 31 kzak kzak 4096 Jul 26 15:54 .
> drwxrwxr-x. 13 kzak kzak 4096 Jul 26 15:49 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 kzak kzak 4096 Jul 26 15:54 local
>
> and nothing other, .mozilla, vimrc, bash_profile, .xsession-errors,
> etc. all could be in ~/local, but then the directory should be really
> visible.
Well, for ~/.local we already have a spec and have had it since a couple
of years, and it is implemented in KDE and in GNOME.
Haha... let's change the standard. It's not so difficult if the
change makes sense; see /run and FSH.
Karel
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