And ways around that

XDG user directories are cool. Dumping your trash in my home directory is not!

• Issue: https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2201

A fork called Tenacity now supports XDG directories.

Update: Fixed: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/3088

Rust package manager.

• Issue: rust-lang/cargo/issues/1734

There are the environment vars CARGO_HOME and RUSTUP_HOME, as a work-round.

• Issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356

~/.godot is the default, but can be fixed in the software preferences.

Sticks it's custom dictionary/ies as a dotfile in home. EG: .hunspell_en_AU.

Well this is weird. There's a .ych, which seems to be the actual Electron launcher?, and then everything else is in .config/itch, like game syou download and everything. WEIRD AS HELL.

• Issue: itchio/itch/issues/2356 (newer, 'wontfix')
• Issue: itchio/itch/issues/1184

Dev hates XDG. Defaults to ~/.mpv, but if you move that to ~/.config/mpv she'll be right. No support for ~/.local or ~/.cache

• Issue: npm/npm/issues/6675
  • Workround in issue: npm/npm/issues/6675#issuecomment-251049832

Generally it works right, but thumbnails are in ~/.thumbnails instead of XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails

• Issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/pcmanfm/feature-requests/431/

I have everything in ~/.config/quodlibet, but that includes stuff that isn't config stuff like playlists.

• Issue: quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/138
• Issue: quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/2202 (current)

They don't have an issue tracker, just a Google forum thing :/

• Issue: ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1890
• Interesting workaround, but not ideal: ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1890#issuecomment-394128930

Defaults to ~/.syncterm, but can edit in config.

• Issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735285

You can set an environment variable to load your config from wherever you want.

export VIMINIT=“:source ~/.config/vim/vimrc”

• https://tlvince.com/vim-respect-xdg

• Issue: weechat/weechat/issues/1285

You can set an environment variable to load your config from wherever you want.

export WEECHAT_HOME=“~/.config/weechat”

Wine keeps it's profiles in ~/.wine by default.

You can change this with an environment variable, say: export WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wine

• https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
• https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory#Support\
• https://soc.me/standards/defending-home - Wild solution where user makes their home directory read-only.