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[-] Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social 31 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Sometimes that folder isn't even hidden, either

[-] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Really just disrespectful on the developer's part.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Doesn't yay use XDG_CACHE_DIR?

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

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

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