Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 20.12.2015 um 01:41 schrieb Rex Dieter:
>> Felix Miata wrote:
>>
>>> Rex Dieter composed on 2015-12-19 17:03 (UTC-0600):
>>>
>>>> kf5/plasma5 applications use:
>>>
>>>> config: ~/.config
>>>
>>> Disturbing that K5 puts 2-3 times as much or more directly in ~/.config/
>>> than all other apps put there combined, making it a big mess, nasty to
>>> selectively backup or restore, instead of using .config/plasma and/or
>>> .config/kde5 and/or something else neat and clean as ~/.kde and ~/.kde4
>>> were, and ~/.config/libreoffice, ~/.config/mc, ~/.config/smplayer,
>>> ~/.config/chromium and others are. Did upstream ever discuss this
>>> clutter and decide it posed no problem being so different from other
>>> apps?
>>
>> Disturbing or not, it's a welcome change to *me* that kde is now using
>> XDG standard locations, see references to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and
>> XDG_DATA_HOME on
>>
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>>
>> NOTE: you can adjust these environment variables to suit your own needs
>> if you prefer something other than their default locations
>
> but you can not say which and how many files of a KDE application part
> of the configuration
You're advocating that kde *not* follow XDG standard specifications?
i am advocating not follows *human understandable* locations
what are my *current* kate setting to duplicate on another machine or
just to backup and restore?
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ locate /home/harry/ | grep kate
/home/harry/.config/katepartrc
/home/harry/.config/katerc
/home/harry/.config/kateschemarc
/home/harry/.config/katesyntaxhighlightingrc
/home/harry/.config/katevirc
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefiletemplates
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefindinfilesplugin
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katepart
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katequickdocumentswitcher
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/default.katesession
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/fsbookmarks.xml
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/kateui.rc
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/sessions
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/filetree
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/findinfiles
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/katecloseexceptplugin
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/katefiletemplates
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/katekonsole
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/katequickdocumentswitcher
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/plugins/project
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/kate/sessions/Standardsitzung.katesession
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefiletemplates/plugins
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefiletemplates/plugins/katefiletemplates
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefindinfilesplugin/plugins
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katefindinfilesplugin/plugins/findinfiles
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katepart/katepartui.rc
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katequickdocumentswitcher/plugins
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/katequickdocumentswitcher/plugins
/home/harry/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata
/home/harry/.kde/share/config/katepartindentjscriptrc
/home/harry/.kde/share/config/katepartpluginsrc
/home/harry/.kde/share/config/katepartscriptrc
/home/harry/.kde/share/config/katerc
/home/harry/.kde/share/config/katercJ13485.new
/home/harry/.kde/share/config/kateschemarc
/home/harry/.kde/share/config/katescriptingrc
/home/harry/.kde/share/config/katesyntaxhighlightingrc
/home/harry/.local/share/kate
/home/harry/.local/share/applications/kde4-kate.desktop
/home/harry/.local/share/kate/anonymous.katesession
/home/harry/.local/share/kate/sessions
/home/harry/.local/share/kxmlgui5/kate
/home/harry/.local/share/kxmlgui5/katepart
/home/harry/.local/share/kxmlgui5/kate/kateui.rc
/home/harry/.local/share/kxmlgui5/katepart/katepart5ui.rc