No. Hidden home directory files traditionally have a special meaning. They are initialisation resources.
~/.something is a place a program will go to look for startup options (in a particular order after /var/something ... so that global and multi user configs can live together)
I know some recent Linux apps have started putting userworld resources into dot directories, but this is bad practice imho.
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:49:53 +0200 Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
With this release of Pd-extended, all platforms have default
locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc. I just had a
thought, perhaps ~/.pd would be a better directory than ~/pd. Any
thoughts on that?Here's how it is now:
GNU/Linux: /usr/share/pd and ~/pd Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/ Application Data/Pd
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