How should a Gnome applet store its configuration data?

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Published on 2010-06-10T20:35:44Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 23:52 UTC
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I have a Gnome applet written in Python. In order to save configuration data/settings, it creates a file ~/.appname.

However, this prevents multiple instances of the applet from being added to the panel because each cannot have its own settings.

How can I store the settings in a way that allows each instance to have its own unique settings?

Update: I specifically want to know how to store settings per instance.

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