American_Jesus@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickexternal-linkmessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1686arrow-down19
arrow-up1677arrow-down1external-linkDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickAmerican_Jesus@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square156fedilink
minus-squarelloram239@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 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.