The Ubuntu community has contributed 12357 ideas, 58479 comments, 1187050 votes
Idea
#6535: Reduce home config directories (hidden, starting with . dot)
|
| |
0
|
|
|
Written by madneon the 6 Apr 08 at 22:17.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
|
|
|
Description
If there is a way to reduce hidden directories in home (~/) - do it. Create unified ~/config dir or something like that.
Tags:
(none)
Attachments
No attachments.
Duplicates
Comments
|
glotz wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 22:52
| |
Why??
|
|
jimmux wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 23:30
| |
It can get a bit messy. Putting it all under .config would be a nice improvement in my book.
|
|
bryhoyt wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 23:41
|
If Linux/Ubuntu ever unifies its configuration, then it should do it properly. A central config repository, with a system/user/environment hierarchy is great, but we also need a unified configuration file format. Text files are very cool for this, because they're easy to edit & parse.
But the really important thing here is that they're all in the same format for all applications, and there's a standard naming scheme so you can easily locate the config for a particular app. That's what we don't have currently. It would also make creating configuration GUIs a whole lot easier.
If all the effort that is going into creating config GUIs were to be focused on creating a unified config database of some sort, then we'd be a lot further ahead than we are now.
|
|
mp3phish wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 01:39
|
bryhoyt: so you suggest we go to the windows registry idea then?
Lets just define ~/.config/ and ~/.tmp/ and be done with it, then programs can put cache and other garbage in .temp and all their configs in .config in their own hierarchy (if they choose, or just 1 file if they choose) and then its done.
I don't see what the prob is really. But a database sounds like a bad idea to me.
|
|
glibik wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 03:35
|
Jimmux: What about /home//.etc/ instead? Just for the sake of consistency. System wide configuration information is kept in /etc/ Well, at least it should be. :-\
bryhoyt: Like mp3phish said. As for all applications having the config same format; couldn't agree more! Have been advocating that for years. Trouble is, individual distributions don't have influence over that. It is the developers of each application who determine that.
Considered voting this one down as well as up, so decided in the end: Vote = 0
|
|
madneon wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 17:02
| |
~/etc could be a good idea to store all user configs
|
Post your comment
|
|
|
