>It is meant for persistent user configuration, possibly generated by the app - the type you might want to back up. You are not supposed to understand or be able to read every file in there, just be able to know the usage.
I understand your point, but there is a lot more going on than just "configuration that isn't human readable" unfortunately.
> (Google stuffs shader caches in there it seems?)
They also stuff web storage.
And despite their misuses of .config they also still pollute the root $HOME by creating $HOME/.pki. Deleting the folder and restarting Chrome will always create this thing.
I understand your point, but there is a lot more going on than just "configuration that isn't human readable" unfortunately.
> (Google stuffs shader caches in there it seems?)
They also stuff web storage.
And despite their misuses of .config they also still pollute the root $HOME by creating $HOME/.pki. Deleting the folder and restarting Chrome will always create this thing.