On 7/15/05, Nick Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I challenge you to do "ls ~ -la". I bet you would be lost. Having a > > program configuration dir would help to sort things out, and would > > benefit every one. > > Done that. Not Lost. > > What was your point? > >
My point is that there are TONS of configuration dirs in your home dir, mixed with data/docs dirs, and unsorted files. And even though the configs are usually hidden, they should be inside one main hidden dir, instead of just being clogging your home dir. For instance, if you try to find the config dir for that particular program, and you don't know its name, then doing ls -la is useless, because (at least in my case) the terminal buffer overflows, so you can't see the first dirs that show up. Unless you pipe it to less, but then you loose the colour formating.. Making it a separate dir would allow you to have only config dirs showing, and not your docs or data dirs.
