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One could say the same for ~ on Linux. 'It's already bad' isn't an excuse for sloppy programming. Software should ideally adhere to OS norms. Better still, sof
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
One could say the same for ~ on Linux. 'It's already bad' isn't an excuse for sloppy programming.
Software should ideally adhere to OS norms. Better still, software shouldn't be opaque about where global/user-specific cache/config data is stored, and should prompt users to choose (or set sane defaults, again adhering to OS norms).
IMO the video game industry is a big offender of home-folder pollution, with saves and configs being splattered all over %USERPROFILE%\Documents, %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\ (which is a legacy holdover from Windows XP), %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games (which does have a corresponding KNOWNFOLDERID), etc etc.
- toastal 4y agoIf it's any consolation, games from Steam on Linux leak files all over the place on that OS too. Right now the offenders in my $HOME not following $XDG are games, LibreWolf via Mozilla, Xmonad, GnuPG, and anything related to npm (with their maintainers closing any issued opened about support $XDG).
- Macha 4y agoSteamApps/userdata, %APPDATA%/Publisher, %APPDATA/Developer, %LOCALAPPDATA%, the list goes on...
- rogual 4y agoWhen making games, I have them store their config in %APPDATA% on Windows, although I do see the downside if there's a bug and I want to direct a customer to send me a log file that was saved there or just generally delete or move files around in there. It's not as familiar and safe-feeling for a nontechnical user to navigate to %APPDATA% is it is to just look in their Documents.