> Most prsistent files should never be cleaned on uninstall
I dislike it when applications fail to remove all of their files on uninstall. Playing "find the orphans" is never fun.
I understand the reasoning here, but there should always at least be an option to clean everything on uninstall.
Temporary files often shouldn't exist. If it's less that a few megabytes why is it touching disk unless it will be needed persistently? In any case the detritus doesn't matter, if it's big enough to care I'll see the disk space is low and find it with baobab at some point.
It's not perfect, but it's not a major nightmare.