Re: XDG and Freedesktop (was: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.)

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 10:35:05 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

* The whole XDG_CONFIG_HOME approach is needlessly incompatible with the
  standard (even if just de facto) configuration directory approach.

    ldo@theon:~> ls -d ~/.[!.]* | wc -l
    270

Death to dotfile clutter!

Not to mention now there have been utilities adopting the
XDG_CONFIG_HOME approach... but what does that mean for other UNIX and
UNIX-like systems? Users on other systems have to do it the freedesktop
way now?

This is all implemented in common library code. If the same code runs on a
different *nix system, built against the same libraries, then it will
implement the same conventions for its dotfiles.

I think the only challenge of this one, once one knows the tools,
might be that it requires "desktop entry" files (".desktop").

These are very versatile things. They not only define clickable icons on
the desktop, but also menu entries. And also icons in the favourites
toolbar. And also custom entries in the “create new document” menu in file
managers.