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Re:Dotfile madness by rovr138 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:59PM (#19065678)
That’s what the article talks about. How applications should use $XDG_DATA_HOME, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_CACHE_HOME and some defaults if they’re not set.
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Re:Dotfile madness by themodelplumber on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:03PM (#19065695)
I'm not seeing it. Where does XDG define when and how an app should use:

/home/user/Documents/

/home/user/Downloads/

/home/user/Pictures/

/home/user/Videos/

Let me know what I'm missing.

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Re:Dotfile madness by nycticorax on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:45PM (#19065929)
I can't find "official" XDG documentation of this, but the Arch Wiki describes, for instance, the XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR and XDG_VIDEOS_DIR environment variables:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_user_directories

It looks like maybe the "official" documentation is here:

http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/xdg-user-dirs-0.17...

But I haven't gone through that carefully.

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Re:Dotfile madness by amlib on Saturday February 02, 2019 @08:47PM (#19067249)
You should be able to change the default settings for these directories by changing /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults (system-wide) and ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs (users override)
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Re:Dotfile madness by petemc_ on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:53PM (#19066324)
Why would it have to define those directories in particular?
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