clean up user folder

[cabillman]

After imaging do we want to clean up the user's home folder? What should be preserved?

Keep everything if distro version is the same?
Make it a parameter?
Only remove the ~/. hidden folders?
Other ideas?

[tomswartz07]

I think we will quickly get in trouble if we delete folders by default. I'm in favor of a parameter or switch.

If we really want to modify the config files, the majority of the major distros honor the FreeDesktop standards, (e.g. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME).
We could move them to an alternate location, similar to the Windows.old folder that appears during an OS upgrade.

[cabillman]

I'm not in favor of deleting anything either. I was thinking of moving them out of the way somehow. That could be a .old folder, or creating a new clean home folder and moving all the non . folders, etc.

XDG_CONFIG_HOME doesn't contain the data for all apps so moving that probably won't do the job.

[cabillman]

The consensus is to move all hidden folders out of the way. Copy over mozilla and chrome+chromium. And archive old settings.

Use /etc/skel for things we want to set post image.