• WasPentalive@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    Why aren’t all of these just normal directories under either .local (for data files) or .config (for configuration)???

    Actually, I think the XDG directories should be under a single XDG directory either dotted or not (a better name would be OK with me) ~/xdg/Documents, ~/xdg/Music, ~/xdg/Pictures etc.

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      9 months ago

      That’s the beauty: XDG compliant applications are entirely configurable using standardized environment variables.

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      9 months ago

      Documents, Music, etc actually are configurable. Just edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs