> On 12 May 2016, at 22:53, Britton Kerin <britton.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> * Why does gnome use ~/.local and ~/.config?  They think they the
> center of my fcking universe that they take these generic names?

They’re generic names because it’s an open standard that KDE and other FOSS 
desktops and applications also use:

<https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html>

> * How do I know if I want ~/.local or ~/.config?  Lots of functional
> overlap to look at the files

Per the spec:

~/.local/share is the default location for user-specific data files.
~/.config is the default location for user-specific configuration files.

(Sorry, can’t help you with your other queries…)

—Calum.
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