[Bug 1358294] Re: App .config not removed when app uninstalled

[Seth Arnold]

I strongly dislike the idea of click deleting user data when
applications are uninstalled. The number of ways that this can go wrong
is staggering. Different users on a device may wish to make different
choices when an application is uninstalled.

We do need some way to clean up applications but it should be handled
through some other user-driven mechanism; I suggest an interface in the
system configuration dialog that allows users to see how much {cache,
configuration, private data, trust-store entries} each installed
application is using and allow them to delete the data as they wish.

Thanks

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Title:
  App .config not removed when app uninstalled

Status in “click” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  If an app uses ~/.config/foo (say, uses Qt.labs.settings), and the
  user uninstalls the app, ~/.config/foo is not removed. It should be
  deleted when the app is uninstalled.

  Using latest utopic on the phone.

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