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MartinR Jul 11, 2023

Proposal for cleaner ~/.config directory

Proposal for cleaner ~/.config directory - Feddit

There’s a proposal at the linked blog post for how to clean up the config directory. The post goes into detail which changes would be required in KDE software using Qt. After reading, I just have one question (the blog does not seem to have a comment section): how does this handle transitioning from the old location to the new location? Imagine having a katerc config file under ~/.config and one under ~/.config/kate (which is the suggestion from the post) - should those be merged once and then the old one gets deleted?

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stevecrox Jul 11, 2023

@MartinR the Maven convention for packaging is a group identifer/package is the inverse domain order.

Taking `plasma-org.kde.desktop-appletsrc` you would create a group identifer of: `org.plasma.kde.desktop` With the artefact identifier being: `appletsrc`.

The folder structure would then look like:

```
.config
->org
->->plasma
->->->kde
->->->->desktop
->->->->->appletsrc
```

Its simple

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Molecular0079

That feels way too nested to be useful IMHO. It’s great for packaging dev tools, but not really for handling config directories for user space apps. I just want ~/.config/KDE/<app>