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> people still can't get used to .local/.share/.config I'm one of those people... I don't want yet more hidden stuff in my home dir; I want less. My dream is
by enriquto 2y ago
> people still can't get used to .local/.share/.config
I'm one of those people... I don't want yet more hidden stuff in my home dir; I want less. My dream is to have zero hidden directories in my home. What I want is something really clean like this:
$ ls -a ~
. .. config fun local pro tmp
This is almost possible, thanks to XDG_ environment variables. But unfortunately many programs still use hardcoded names for the local userdirs.
If you want to get closer to that goal, the xdg-ninja [0] package can help you. Also, do something like "touch ~/.local ; chmod 000 ~/.local" to force programs that use hardcoded names to fail spectacularly (instead of recreating the hidden dir).
[0] https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja