Comment 18 for bug 1358294
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| Davide Alberelli (dadexix86) wrote Re: App .config not removed when app uninstalled | #18 |
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I personally don't agree with this decision and I think think it is highly inconsistent with the desktop experience.
The users' .config, .cache, .local folders should not be removed unless specifically asked by the user itself (or at least give us the possibility to choose to not remove them).
If I remove an app, so to say, to make space to try a bigger app that does not fit on my device, I would like to be able to recover the previous configurations without needing to setting it up again once I remove the second one (this is what happens by default on Android's systems - at least the ones that I tried).
The best option for me would be to have global Settings triggers "Actions to do when uninstalling apps" with user-specified configurations
"delete personal configurations" (not selected)
"delete cached data" (selected)
"delete other local data" (not selected)
and a warning when uninstalling saying "you are going to remove this, this and that data", depending on the chosen configurations.