Bug 393813

Summary: Better organize Plasma and KDE application configuration files
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Richard Bowen <rgb.ide>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.12.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: KDE related config files ~/.config path

Description Richard Bowen 2018-05-03 18:00:59 UTC
Created attachment 112392 [details]
KDE related config files ~/.config path

The ~/.config directory is used by Plasma and KDE application for storing config files however these config files are all not organized in a directory(s) and a result the ~/.config path has a lot of KDE related config files.

This is a proposal to create a directory structure in ~/.config to better organize those files.

An alternative could be to store the config files (or values) in another way.
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2018-05-03 18:02:10 UTC
Migration is very difficult, and this isn't something that's actually a problem
Comment 2 Richard Bowen 2018-05-03 18:07:00 UTC
True it isn't an issue, but now I know the situation. Thanks.
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2018-05-03 18:33:26 UTC
Organized by what criteria? You could create your own hierarchy with links to actual config files, but right now I have no idea why you want them organized. It's like saying you want to organize the /usr/bin or /usr/lib folders.
Comment 4 Richard Bowen 2018-05-03 21:00:50 UTC
It's just that other applications/desktop environments organize their config files in a folder structure in ~/.config. The categorization simplifies things a bit (eg. ~/.config/plasma/)