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Cleaning up the whole $HOME/<.pkgname>/ situation for individual app settings
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One option might be to run certain of your apps in Docker. There are ways to go about running even graphical apps in Docker. And with Docker, you can tell it to mount /home//.config/someapp on the host to /home//.someapp in the container.
I run as much as I can in Docker for this reason among others.
This is the right way to solve the issue, because this is actually a security issue, and I think most people don't realize that.
I'm aiming to make this easier, so everybody can benefit from this approach. I haven't publicly announced it yet because I'm still missing better documentation. But it's pretty advanced already, and I could use feedback on how it performs on your use-cases: https://codeberg.org/contr/contr
cc @knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml