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As another user, I find it infuriating that 95% of all applications I run respect XDG and go into ~/.config (where I have hundreds of folders), but a handful or
by arghwhat 3y ago
As another user, I find it infuriating that 95% of all applications I run respect XDG and go into ~/.config (where I have hundreds of folders), but a handful or two do not and litter in my home folder.
If only the last stubborn applications would comply, I would have just 1 place to look for config, and one place to wipe caches.
- tsimionescu 3y agoPlenty of apps which use .config use it for everything, caches included. The percentage of apps which fully respect the XDG spec is much lower than the percentage that use the XDG config dir. And this is to be expected - changing the default config dir is one thing, changing your code to put different kinds of files in different places is much more work.