Finding where to store application data portably

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:07:54 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:

>  > I wish the Linux Standard Base folks would specify that settings files
>  > should all go into a subdirectory like ~/settings rather than filling up
>  > the home directory with cruft. That was acceptable in the days when 
>  > people
>  > only looked at their files with ls, but in these days of GUI file
>  > managers, it is ridiculous that there are more than 100 dot files and
>  > directories in my home directory.
> 
> Don't all file managers have an option to hide files beginning with '.'?

I don't want to hide them. I just don't want them in my face when I open
my home directory.


-- 
Steven.