Hi; On 4 August 2015 at 14:11, Pat Suwalski <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2. My primary issue is that the software should not do unexpected >> things. I didn’t expect that a program would create these folders, and I >> didn’t expect that it would repurpose existing folders. Especially I >> didn’t want it to repurpose my existing folders. So what is the problem >> with informing the user of the changes, and giving him a chance to opt >> out? This is a very disrespectful behaviour!
There is no change to opt out from: all the XDG user directories do is provide convenient defaults for applications. If the directories already exist, they are left alone; if they do not exist, some application will try to create them, while others may fall back to other locations, though I'm pretty sure application developers stopped falling back because it's been seven years and at some point fallback code paths that are not getting tested are just sources of bugs. XDG user directories are just configuration settings. They come with the system, and users can change them if they so choose. What to do with those settings is entirely up to the applications using them. > It's not repurposing any folders. These folders may get used as defaults for > programs that haven't had any other settings specified, but your existing > programs would continue doing what you expect. If you don't want to use the default values, because you already set up your $HOME in a certain way, you can also change the location of each directory using ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs. This way, you can keep using your $HOME layout. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
