Originally posted by bugmenot
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You cannot revert more than a handful of software towards -> XDG_*/appname/ (as transmission, under the awkward condition to run it with a certain flag), if this was what you wanted.
.config is a sensible default.
About hiding dot-files as a cure-all only works under the stupid assumption you will never have to access these files yourself. It's when we do need to access them every now and then that we are greeted with a most unpleasant directory listing, which we now need to scroll through to find our folder.
And a whole bunch of these I don't even know what they are for; aiconsF, aiconfsI, swp, xmsbrowser, netx, mcop, rnd? The last proved to be a temporary binary file generated by vim which i found out by checking the file itself. So now vim has, swp, viminfz.tmp, vimrc, vim, viminfo, 1 folder with settings, 2 config files, and 2 temporary files. So what is this old default your are talking about? ~/.appname/ ? Well vim surely thinks dumping it's files right into ~/ is a sensible default. Gnome got two folders, gtk got 3 files.
The current default is "do whatever you want with your files", but luckily, most software seems to be have reverted to a basic folder setup.
I like folders. And I use them to structure my material. I see no reason not to structure these config files. Otherwise we could just as well dump all files straight into home. How practical! All the files right there, at your convenience!
There are users and developers who like this idea and no one is forcing this upon software more than any other feature request. If a lot more software starts using this then i guess you'll only have to endure the suffering of having to type .c*tab* before accessing your config files.
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