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Seems that its not such a minor complaint after all :) Im wondering if this idea should be reformatted as a project to migrate ALL linuxmint and cinnamon software to the XDG directory specification. |
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What's the point if there are 2 less folders? Countless apps create their folders in ~ mozilla, thunderbird, librewolf, audacity, hydrogen ... and many more |
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Mozilla has actually relocated their folders after over 20 years of requesting the feature. Relocating folders according to the XDG compliance spec not only reduces clutter in the home folder but allows files to be managed better by software platforms and tools. Cache files can be stored on temporary filesystems. Backup software can copy config and data files knowing that all the programs are accounted for. Software libraries and apps that interact with each other can work more effectively. Codebases can reuse existing libraries rather than creating their own for obscure edge cases. Standardizing file storage locations benefit everyone. |
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However, this change only affects new installations or new profiles for existing users. If you could convince all developers to use xdg folders that would be nice, but I'm afraid it will be difficult. |
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Just because it may not be easy, doesnt mean its something that shouldn't be done. Linux mint can and should. |
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This is really a very minor complaint, but...
Currently a fresh install of Mint comes with the ~/.linuxmint folder which, as far as I can tell, stores data for the update manager, the welcome screen, sticky, and possibly other apps too. It seems to me like this data could be easily put into other folders in the home directory following the XDG Base Directory spec. For example, mintwelcome's 'norun.flag' could be put in ~/.config, and mintupdate's 'updates.json' in the same place or maybe ~/.local/share. Sticky's data, which seems to be the notes themselves, could also go in ~/.local/share. That way we'd get rid of the ~/.linuxmint folder itself for a cleaner home directory.
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