Comment 7 for bug 1088064
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| Eric Heintzmann (heintzmann-eric) wrote | #7 |
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> - Make backups a lot more safer and easier. -- I agree
I think backup are the main reason to use XDG basedir spec.
>- A lot easier to reset a default configuration if you want/need it (and without any risk to loose informations). Even for the >software itself could choose to reset $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if needed. -- I disagree, because for stellarium need use three >different directories for storing users data instead one directory. Is this a "lot easier"?
Configuration file should be written in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME /stellarium. Thus you can reset your preferences just by deleting this dir without data loss (because you user data are saved in $XDG_DATA_HOME).