Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

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On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:47 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
> I'm sure there's a more accurate historical reason, but all of your
> application's configuration settings and data are stored that way to
> avoid you deleting things accidentally and keep your home directory
> clutter free. Under Windows things are hidden away in weird places
> like "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Data\Application Data\" but
> on Unix, everything related to you sits in your home directory. Where
> else would they put it?

There's been arguments for ~/local/ or ~/.local/ for some time, so that
all the stuff you normally don't want to see is one place, and you can
use all of your home for yourself, without having to weed through the
chaff.  It would make backups easy, where you can back up all your
configurations, without personal files, or vice versa, without making
lots of rules about what to include/exclude.


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