Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: XDG and Freedesktop (was: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:15:49 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: <20250630131549.00002c36@gmail.com> References: <103a6c8$qvlb$1@dont-email.me> <103sjv9$1p9c9$6@dont-email.me> <103tc72$21i99$4@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:15:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d92670c28d82e01637d6a6b34a0235d5"; logging-data="2497170"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/IH9FgsJWwpUSIH7H2XvAAqwfltDptWF0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:LvxF37oPLTWtdULK1lMPxkr0/MU= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69223 On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:50:40 -0000 (UTC) Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote: > Also XDG has a very limited understanding of how people may organize > files. I don't have a "templates" directory, I'm not even sure what > I'd put in one. I don't have a "music" directory, and I don't need > one. Strictly speaking xdg-user-dirs is supposed to be configurable wrt. where exactly it locates these - but yeah, there's a lot of baked-in assumptions about how a user's files should be organized and the whole thing looks mostly like a "because MS did it" post-hoc standard. Like, okay, music/pictures/etc. I get, but "templates" has always baffled me; do they think everyone does mass mail-merge on the regular? Or is there some breed of weirdo out there that does all their letter- writing/Paint doodling/whatever by opening up an existing document, making changes, and saving it as a new file? "Public" also strikes me as bass-ackwards - assuming you're even *on* a shared system, wouldn't it make more sense to keep public files in a common location, rather than having to remember whether it was Ted or Carol who had the new wifi password for the Internet-enabled toaster in their ~/Public/confidential-office-info.txt ?