preferences file

[songbird]

Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote:
>
>> > What about running a multi-tenant application (for multiple users who 
>> > are not also system-users) - cf them logging-on to run their own. It is 
>> > appropriate, possibly even "required" to keep Fred's config file, 
>> > reports, graphs, logs, etc; separate from Barney's. Ideally they will 
>> > not be sub-dirs of the application/package.
>> 
>>   if it is per user defined then $HOME/.config/<app-name>, 
>> $HOME/.local/share/<app-name> and any temporary data can go 
>> in $HOME/.cache/<app-name> will do it for posix on Windows 
>> there is the per user app stuff which i haven't sorted out
>> yet.
>> 
>>   $HOME changes per user login name change.
>
> 	$HOME/.config/<app-name>/<app-user>/
> 	$HOME/.cache/<app-name>/<app-user>/

  that makes no sense as you already have unique
user name covered by $HOME so why repeat again?


  songbird