So, just today I was thinking how wonderful it would be if
programs like
F-Spot put the tag information for photos in the user's
Photographs
directory, such that copying photographs also magically
copied the tag
database. Then, on a slightly different topic, I realized
that backing
up configuration for programs is a horrific act because they
all put
their junk in different places; the only straight-forward
way for a
backup tool to say "back up Rhythmbox's settings?"
is for it to
hard-code where Rhythmbox stores its settings. Then I
remembered that
any decent user-pointing program makes itself known at least
through
a .desktop file which, among other things, makes that
program appear in
the Open With menu for files.
Rather than trying hopelessly to standardize config file
locations
(which will lead to nothing of note), why not add an
optional line to
the Desktop Entry Specification which points to the location
of
configuration files for a program? In this way, a backup
tool could
gather a list of all installed programs and offer to store
their
configuration directories. Does this already happen? Is
there a
particular reason it does not?
Maybe the thought here is completely ridiculous, out of
scope or useless
compared to, for example, some dbus magic. Just food for
thought,
really!
Bye,
-Dylan
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