On 12 Jun 2010, at 11:56, Kris Maglione wrote:
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:45:40PM +0200, Martin Kopta wrote:
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:48:27AM +0200, Jakub Lach wrote:
> $ ls -d .* | wc -l
> 37
> $ ls -ld $HOME
> dr-x------ 27 dum8d0g users ...
> > $ ls -d .* | wc -l
47
$ ls -ld $HOME
drwxrwx--- 40 user ...
How do you prevent dotfiles/dotdirs beeing created?
My guess would be either rm(1) or not using crappy apps (although
admittedly some of the least crappy apps clutter your home directory
with them). Even with cleaning out useless dot-files every few
months, I still wind up with hundreds, though.
I hate to say this, but I'd say when my home dir was at its worst
maybe 30% of the dot-files were produced by window managers. That's
really fairly normal for me, every so often I'll try out a whole slew
of WMs and forget about the dot-files until later. I can't see how
putting the files in another dir will help, whether that dir
is .config or lib or Library/Application\ Support. I'm starting to
really appreciate apps which aren't configurable, but I do miss window-
match actions in my WM.
I somewhat support compiling config into the binary as dwm does. I had
dwm's source dir in ~ for easy access to its config, and /usr/local/
bin/dwm was either a symlink or a 2-line script (I forget which)
launching the executable from the source dir. That's about as
convenient as it could be, but from a user perspective it was nowhere
near as sane as, say, Enlightenment where you right-click on the title
bar, go through a couple of submenus, and click "remember workspace"
or whatever.
My latest thought on the subject is perhaps each app should have its
own dir where it stores everything, but I haven't given that any real
thought yet. I was trying to take into account other issues such as
the man page namespace too. Maybe I'll give it some thought later.
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computer can do for you.
