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.
Let’s count them. (not including legacy or standard locations like .local, .config, or .cache, .ssh, and shell configuration files
And a couple more, non-hidden files for Go.
i can almost ignore the hidden ones, but
~/go
? no thats just rudeafaik, tmux can use
~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf
or something, if~/.tmux
is not foundNeat! Git has the same behavior.
Is it a problem to change this?
If these were links to issues that could be reacted to, I’d totally do that.
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.
That’s the beauty: XDG compliant applications are entirely configurable using standardized environment variables.
Documents, Music, etc actually are configurable. Just edit
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs