https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422529
--- Comment #9 from Artem S. Tashkinov <a...@gmx.com> --- (In reply to Volker Krause from comment #8) > I don't think KConfig is the right place for this. The library one happens > to use for accessing a config file shouldn't just add its own vendor prefix. > I can see why we might want some grouping of the config files, but that > should be per product or product group (say Akonadi-based PIM or Plasma), > not per config library vendor. > > Should someone want to implement this, this also needs considering migrating > existing files and we need to account for application code that for whatever > reason searches for config file locations manually. So this is much more > than just adding an extra prefix in one place. Whether that effort/risk is > worth the gain is another question. Lots of people do not want to see all their KDE configuration files under `~/.config`. XFCE for instance has its own prefix `~/.config/xfce4` which makes it easy to reset XFCE settings without touching anything else. KDE makes it wholly impossible and not only that, ~/.config with KDE5 installed looks like a complete mess. I'm pretty sure `~/.config` is hardcoded somewhere and changing it to e.g. `~/.config/kde6` must be relatively easy. I've no idea what the right component is, I'm not a KDE developer, I don't have to know that. I want that to be fixed, and not only me, but other people as well. I also don't quite understand the whole "migration" issue. I believe nothing should be migrated automatically. People who upgrade from KDE5 to KDE6 will have a brand new clean environment unless they manually move the necessary files. It's actually a good thing. Less junk, fewer issues related to older config files. I also don't understand why you paint it as something complicated which could have its pitfalls. KDE3 had it's own `~/.kde3` path which was changed to `~/.config`. I don't remember any significant issues or arguments over that. Someone just did it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
