Bug 422920

Summary:	Store configuration files in ~/.config/ subdirectories
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	John William <johnnrgwilliam>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	All
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Description John William 2020-06-13 14:24:24 UTC

I have a small, somewhat pedantic, feature request.

Starting KDE/plasma just once creates hundreds of configuration files in ~/.config/. Most of those are tiny files concerning small simple aspects of my desktop. It seems like most/all KCM modules creates one each, and so do KDE applications/modules/subsystems.

I like that the KDE configuration is so simple and modular, but ~/.config/ seems very polluted.

Would it be possible to start using a more hierarchical approach to store the configuration files? Like storing them into ~/.config/KDE/KCM/ ~/.config/KDE/plasma/ ~/.config/KDE/apps/ etc.

I think that this would have a few advantages:

1. It would be easier to remove the whole configuration of KDE (and plasma, KCM etc), to start KDE/plasma with a clean slate.

2. It would be easier to find both KDE and non-KDE config files. I was looking at ~/.config/ to decide which files I should copy to my new system, but the pollution of that directory is making this job tedious.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-06-13 16:48:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 422529 ***