Bug 422920 - Store configuration files in ~/.config/ subdirectories
Summary: Store configuration files in ~/.config/ subdirectories
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 422529
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other All
: NOR normal
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Reported: 2020-06-13 14:24 UTC by John William
Modified: 2020-06-13 16:48 UTC (History)
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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 ***