On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 07:20:50PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
I think the idea is for folks like me who have networked home directories to be able to specify a non-shared (or at least only used by one machine) config directory; KDE and GNOME both have the idea that they have exclusive access to their files and become very unhappy if multiple machines use their configs. (So does Mozilla/Firefox, for that matter.)
A problem xmonad solved by appending the arch to the binary name. This has one disadvantage I can think of: for DEs that set $XDG automatically, users will have to know about it in order to know where to put their .xmonad.hs -- otherwise the file won't be detected. Perhaps that's not worth worrying about. It seems the only advantage is cleaning up the home directory.