Re: [LUG] Google Chrome settings?

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Subject: Re: [LUG] Google Chrome settings?

From: Steven CÃtÃ <steven.cote@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:38:44 +0000

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ÂIt is ~/.config/google_chrome so its in the 'right place'.

That all depends... it seems that there's half-a-dozen different places
to look for user config info. ÂI wouldn't mind if things stuck to the
same rules, but it would seem that users should expect settings in one
of the following:
Â~/.appnameconfigfile
Â~/.appname/configfile(s)
Â~/.config/appname/configfiles(s)
Â~/.gnome/ (somewhere)
Â~/.gnome2/ (somewhere)
Â~/.kde/share/apps/appname/configfile(s)
Â~/.kde/share/config/appnamerc
Â~/.kde4/share/apps/appname/configfile(s)
Â~/.kde4/share/config/appnamerc
Â~/.local/appname

Those are largely historical. There is a standard, but not everyone knows about it or chooses to follow it.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

From that document:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.