I want a clean config directory!

Monday, 10 July 2023 | Thiago Masato Costa Sueto

And it can be done easily, ackshually.

But what is that all about?

The problem

It has been a longstanding complaint that the ~/.config/ directory on Linux systems can get riddled with configuration files. This is the case with KDE software as well.

My idea is that we should be putting those into subdirectories inside ~/.config/.

The Freedesktop XDG Base Directory specification generally only states that standard configuration files should go under XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. Dump them there and you’re gold. So it’s not wrong to just fill the ~/.config/ directory with them.