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    Honestly it's a mess (lemmy.world)
    submitted 11 months ago by Geert to c/linuxmemes
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    [โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    XDG Base Directory Specification is not new. come on!

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Hardcoded ๐Ÿ˜ž

    [โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    What does this mean though? Sure it's not new, but does it make it less of a mess?

    [โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    The XDG Base Directory Specification is a set of guidelines to tell application developers where they should store their application's config files, cache, etc.

    There are many applications that don't follow the guidelines and put their files in a hidden folder directly in your home directory, which is what the guidelines are trying to combat.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Sometimes that folder isn't even hidden, either

    [โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Really just disrespectful on the developer's part.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    cough cough Zoom. But then, even stuff like yay on Arch has its folder just in plain sight, slapped right into my home directory. Like, why

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Doesn't yay use XDG_CACHE_DIR?

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    Maybe it's because I'm using Endeavour? I'm not sure

    [โ€“] Rustmilian 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    It certainly can. try xdg-ninja.