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    [โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [โ€“] brian 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What does this mean though? Sure it's not new, but does it make it less of a mess?

    [โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The XDG Base Directory Specification is a set of guidelines to tell application developers where they should store their application's config files, cache, etc.

    There are many applications that don't follow the guidelines and put their files in a hidden folder directly in your home directory, which is what the guidelines are trying to combat.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Sometimes that folder isn't even hidden, either

    [โ€“] cyanarchy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Really just disrespectful on the developer's part.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    cough cough Zoom. But then, even stuff like yay on Arch has its folder just in plain sight, slapped right into my home directory. Like, why

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Doesn't yay use XDG_CACHE_DIR?

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Maybe it's because I'm using Endeavour? I'm not sure

    [โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    It certainly can. try xdg-ninja.