preferences file

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:23:31AM -0500, songbird wrote:

> Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote:
> >
> >> > What about running a multi-tenant application (for multiple users who 
> >> > are not also system-users) - cf them logging-on to run their own. It is 
> >> > appropriate, possibly even "required" to keep Fred's config file, 
> >> > reports, graphs, logs, etc; separate from Barney's. Ideally they will 
> >> > not be sub-dirs of the application/package.
> >> 
> >>   if it is per user defined then $HOME/.config/<app-name>, 
> >> $HOME/.local/share/<app-name> and any temporary data can go 
> >> in $HOME/.cache/<app-name> will do it for posix on Windows 
> >> there is the per user app stuff which i haven't sorted out
> >> yet.
> >> 
> >>   $HOME changes per user login name change.
> >
> > 	$HOME/.config/<app-name>/<app-user>/
> > 	$HOME/.cache/<app-name>/<app-user>/
> 
>   that makes no sense as you already have unique
> user name covered by $HOME so why repeat again?

Because you seemed to imply that the login user is different
from the app user:

	"the per user app stuff")

Apparently you meant something else ?

Karsten
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