~/.mc/ini

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 12:51 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ~/.config/mc/
> > plus
> > ~/.local/share/mc/
> > for other files.
> 
> Thanks!. I' m curious as to when did this change happen? (surely wasnt
> there in FC6 when I started with Fedora).
> 
> I guess the rationale was to stop the pollution in the home dir?

Presumably it's to follow the Free Desktop standard. See for example
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html

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