[ilian]

If you place something in the ~/.config it is not portable, ones you copy your files and folders to a usb stick or sync them with dropbox, you loose the meta data.

[kijin]

Then the app is poorly designed. It should sync metadata over a different channel.

Otherwise you get inconsistent behavior such as metadata being synced when you copy entire folders, but not when you copy individual files. Then you have to rely on even more hacks to get around that, like detecting when a file is copied and automatically copying the corresponding dotfile. Sooner or later you end up with a complete mess.

[tscs37]

Well

1) This is not default behaviour, you have to specifically enable this

2) They actually note that if you copy files outside their app, metadata does not get copied, it's doubtful they'll fix it

So basically, NOFIX, working as intended. Not poor design.