American_Jesus@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickexternal-linkmessage-square154fedilinkarrow-up1662arrow-down18
arrow-up1654arrow-down1external-linkDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickAmerican_Jesus@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square154fedilink
minus-squarelloram239@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoYes, but OP wanted .dotfiles. Nice thing with XDG is that you can change all that. The user directories Desktop, Downloads, etc. can be changed as well: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
minus-squareinetknght@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year ago…that’s assuming that apps actually respect that environment variable. The problem is that if the app is writing to ${HOME} then they’re already not following XDG spec.
Yes, but OP wanted
.dotfiles
. Nice thing with XDG is that you can change all that.The user directories Desktop, Downloads, etc. can be changed as well: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
…that’s assuming that apps actually respect that environment variable. The problem is that if the app is writing to ${HOME} then they’re already not following XDG spec.