I don't use GNOME, but...

Posted Jan 31, 2010 9:35 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: I don't use GNOME, but... by cortana
Parent article: Stormy Peters: What should the GNOME Foundation accomplish in 2010?

In the general case, yes. In the case of config files this is rarely an issue -- if you can do »rename()« on the original file (write to the parent directory, really), you're usually in a position to set up the permissions etc. of the new file to match the old, and it's not as if there are lots of obvious choices for these, anyway.