[project-proposal] xfce4ring

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:34:12 +0100, Robin Haswell wrote:

> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > Robin Haswell wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>>From a user's point of view, I find that picking up my settings and
> >>>taking them to a new computer is extremely tiresome, as there are
> >>>too many folders to remember to zip up.
> > 
> > 
> > $ tar cvjf xfce-config.tar.bz2 ~/.config/xfce4 ~/.cache/sessions \
> >     ~/.config/xfce4-session/
> 
> Hm I was thinking more global future - a store for all apps that ship
> with XFCE or otherwise. Currently I have to copy .bash*, .vim*, .ssh*,
> .Eterm,  (fair enough), but also .gconf, .mozilla* .config, .cache
> and a multitude of other directories, which is a bit lame.

Well, that's where the XDG base dir spec comes into play. In the ideal
case you would only have to copy ~/.config/ and maybe ~/.local/ for
also copying user data stored by your apps. But most programs don't use
SPEC and store their own files, mostly in ~/. 

Anyway, that's not an issue of Xfce. All Xfce settings are stored in
~/.config/ already.

Regards,
Jannis
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