diff --git a/weboob/frontends/http/scripts/http b/weboob/frontends/http/scripts/http
index f135b1e5fa8aeedd0216945864df8366e787a270..db524b09019baa20a243a3873085a7dc852c50e5 100755
--- a/weboob/frontends/http/scripts/http
+++ b/weboob/frontends/http/scripts/http
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class Application(BaseApplication):
     APPNAME = 'http'
 
     def main(self, argv):
-        self.weboob.load_modules()
+        self.weboob.load_backends()
 
 template_lookup = TemplateLookup(directories=['%s/../templates' % os.path.dirname(__file__)],
                                  output_encoding='utf-8', encoding_errors='replace')
diff --git a/weboob/frontends/monboob/scripts/monboob b/weboob/frontends/monboob/scripts/monboob
index a7c3a318d1151f7fe09e7182a4d8ca5bbd77525f..985232773a8ec173a4e6f71a06c51acf710426a6 100755
--- a/weboob/frontends/monboob/scripts/monboob
+++ b/weboob/frontends/monboob/scripts/monboob
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ class Monboob(BaseApplication):
 
     def main(self, argv):
         self.load_config()
-        if not self.myconfig:
+        if not self.config:
             print >>sys.stderr, "Error: %s is not configured yet. Please call 'monboob -c'" % argv[0]
             print >>sys.stderr, "Also, you need to use 'weboobcfg' to set backend configs"
             return -1
 
-        self.weboob.load_modules(ICapMessages, backends=self.config.getbackends())
+        self.weboob.load_modules(ICapMessages)
 
-        self.weboob.schedule(self.myconfig['interval'], self.process)
+        self.weboob.schedule(self.config.get('interval'), self.process)
         self.weboob.loop()
 
     def process(self):
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ class Monboob(BaseApplication):
                 self.send_email(name, message)
 
     def send_email(self, backend_name, mail):
-        domain = self.myconfig['domain']
-        recipient = self.myconfig['recipient']
+        domain = self.config.get('domain')
+        recipient = self.config.get('recipient')
 
         reply_id = ''
         if mail.get_reply_id():
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ class Monboob(BaseApplication):
             msg['In-Reply-To'] = reply_id
 
         # Send the message via SMTP to localhost:25
-        smtp = SMTP(self.myconfig['smtp'])
+        smtp = SMTP(self.config.get('smtp'))
         smtp.sendmail(sender, recipient, msg.as_string())
         smtp.quit()
 
diff --git a/weboob/tools/application.py b/weboob/tools/application.py
index 137c05e510a6f461efdca47675d9bfa8cb17e58b..ec07398c37c9cc6eb2e47b7d2876699c056a3f63 100644
--- a/weboob/tools/application.py
+++ b/weboob/tools/application.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 class BaseApplication(object):
     APPNAME = ''
     CONFIG = {}
-    CONFDIR = '%s/.weboob/' % os.path.expanduser("~")
+    CONFDIR = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.weboob')
 
     def __init__(self):
         self.weboob = Weboob(self.APPNAME)
@@ -45,18 +45,16 @@ def load_config(self, path=None, klass=None):
         if klass is None:
             # load Config only here because some applications don't want
             # to depend on yaml and do not use this function
-            from weboob.tools.config import Config
-            klass = Config
+            from weboob.tools.config.yaml import YamlConfig
+            klass = YamlConfig
 
         if path is None:
-            path = self.CONFDIR + 'weboobrc'
+            path = os.path.join(self.CONFDIR, self.APPNAME)
         elif not path.startswith('/'):
-            path = self.CONFDIR + path
+            path = os.path.join(self.CONFDIR, path)
 
         self.config = klass(path)
-        self.config.load()
-        self.myconfig = self.CONFIG
-        self.myconfig.update(self.config.getfrontend(self.APPNAME))
+        self.config.load(self.CONFIG)
 
     def main(self, argv):
         """ Main function """
diff --git a/weboob/tools/config/__init__.py b/weboob/tools/config/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/weboob/iconfig.py b/weboob/tools/config/iconfig.py
similarity index 76%
rename from weboob/iconfig.py
rename to weboob/tools/config/iconfig.py
index 5d4522c4982f445eb278a95dde4b4605d308dd17..f0f5bfe293e86c589f71337bf81a95b3a2bb0098 100644
--- a/weboob/iconfig.py
+++ b/weboob/tools/config/iconfig.py
@@ -20,14 +20,8 @@
 
 class ConfigError(Exception): pass
 
-class BackendConfig(object):
-    def __init__(self, name, _type, config):
-        self.name = name
-        self.type = _type
-        self.config = config
-
 class IConfig:
-    def load(self):
+    def load(self, default={}):
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
     def save(self):
@@ -38,9 +32,3 @@ def set(self, *args):
 
     def get(self, *args, **kwargs):
         raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def getfrontend(self, name):
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def getbackends(self):
-        raise NotImplementedError()
diff --git a/weboob/tools/config.py b/weboob/tools/config/yaml.py
similarity index 78%
rename from weboob/tools/config.py
rename to weboob/tools/config/yaml.py
index f504184a591259270963c5ec56c2565ccdcb9d0d..8b70f4eee6defb8ae6bfb3ccd6857eb08ff3032e 100644
--- a/weboob/tools/config.py
+++ b/weboob/tools/config/yaml.py
@@ -21,16 +21,17 @@
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
 import yaml
-from logging import warning
 
-from weboob.iconfig import IConfig, ConfigError, BackendConfig
+from .iconfig import IConfig, ConfigError
 
-class Config(IConfig):
+class YamlConfig(IConfig):
     def __init__(self, path):
         self.path = path
         self.values = {}
 
-    def load(self):
+    def load(self, default={}):
+        self.values = default.copy()
+
         try:
             with open(self.path, 'r') as f:
                 self.values = yaml.load(f)
@@ -82,15 +83,3 @@ def set(self, *args):
                 raise ConfigError()
 
         v[args[-2]] = args[-1]
-
-    def getfrontend(self, name):
-        return self.get('frontends', name, default={})
-
-    def getbackends(self):
-        d = {}
-        for key, value in self.get('backends', default={}).iteritems():
-            if not 'type' in value:
-                warning("Missing 'type' item in config of '%s' backend" % key)
-            else:
-                d[key] = BackendConfig(key, value['type'], value.get('config', {}))
-        return d