American_Jesus@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 9 months agoDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickexternal-linkmessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1267arrow-down13
arrow-up1264arrow-down1external-linkDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickAmerican_Jesus@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 9 months agomessage-square69fedilink
minus-squarelloram239@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up15·9 months 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-up7·9 months 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.