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I hope slowly but surely no program will ever dump its config(s) as
~/.xyz.conf
(or even worse in a program specific~/.thisapp/
; The~/.config/
scheme works as long as the programs don't repeat the bad way of dumping files as~/.config/thisconfig.txt
. (I'm looking at you kde folks..) A unique dir in .config directory should be mandatory.If I ever need to shed some cruft accumulated over the years in ~/.config/ this would make it a lot easier.