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> ...
> With the conf rewrite I have a new perspecitve looking at this old problem 
> and I came up with this idea:
> 
> - a design file should not contain non-design-related data (e.g. GUI 
> settings)

Agree.

> - instead there could be a separate file that could save such settings

Agree.

> - the user would place the main design file (e.g. foo.pcb) under VCS but 
> the design-preferences file with all gui settings would be an uncommited 
> local file (e.g. foo.pcb.pref).
> 
> - drawback: the user needs to know about what the two files are for, when 
> adding one (or both) to vcs, when sharing/distributing them, during 
> backups, etc.

For version control system there could be a comment of firs row then user would discover it then he make a diff to figure out. User could of course also read manual if interested.

> So my question is, as an user, what do you think about this approach?

I think it would be good but it is not very important.

> Would it bother you if a random CAD program would start to split design 
> files like that? Is it worth the hassle (from the user's point of view) or 
> the Cursor-Grid-like-noise is too small to deal with 2 files all the time?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Igor2