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Stay Out Of My (Project) $HOME (jackson.dev)
submitted 6 months ago by patrick@lemmy.bestiver.se to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Nowadays, most programs respect this specification

Huh?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, everyone (every-app) thinks they are special and deserve a ".place" in ~ because : .

  • ssh because "I'm SSH!", similar for gpg
  • npm because "I'm a package manager"
  • dillo because "I am old and can't be bothered to update my dirs"
    • I guess I should send them a patch. It shouldn't be too hard to make that little change.
  • fltk same as dillo maybe
  • .mozilla : "Oh but I AM special"
  • .bundle : There is literally only 1 subdir in it and it is named "cache". they could have just done "~/.cache/bundle" instead

IDK why you have a .kde in your screenshot. Debian maybe, or a dir remaining from KDE4? I had an old one remaining in Debain after I upgraded.

  • .config
  • .local
  • .cache

These are what we need to stuff everything into.

[–] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 13 points 6 months ago

.mozilla : “Oh but I AM special”

You would think that thunderbird would use ~/.mozilla as well but nope. It is ~/.thunderbird 🤣

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 6 months ago

This makes me physically uncomfortable >:(

[–] EpicStuff@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I tried to "fix" this using xdg-ninja but then gave up and resorted to just creating a .home in ~ then running usermod -d ~/.home. Then I just symlinked my documents and .config and etc. folders to my "real" home.