Comment 6 for bug 195397
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| Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #6 |
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Rodney > I think that plugins might go in XDG_CONFIG_HOME. My little trick :
- Deleting XDG_DATA_HOME will make the user scream and it will kill your cat. Backuping only XDG_DATA_HOME and non-hidden files should preserve everything that you cannot recover from somewhere else.
- Deleting XDG_CONFIG_HOME will put all softwares in their default configuration, like wanted by the packager. The user will not loose anything valuable but it might takes some time to reconfigure everything according to his needs. Also, copying XDG_CONFIG_HOME on another computer should be enough to have your own configuration automatically applied to this computer (but without your data, of course).
- Deleting XDG_CACHE_HOME will not be noticable by the user except some performance degradation (that might be important. Think about deleting the Tracker cache).
In that sense, it appears that plugins are really part of CONFIG. Deleting them will be noticable by the user but he will be able to recover and will not loose any data. Don't forget that some plugins might use XDG_DATA_HOME if they create user data but it's up to the plugin developper to do that.