I’m looking to restructure my home folder. Have for a long time used the standard XDG user directory structure () and it has become a mess. Also the capitalized directory names are inconvenient for a multitude of reasons.
I’ll have to set the XDG user variables accordingly.
Anyone gone through a process of reorganizing their home directory structure beyond the standard XDG user directory structure. Did you note any oddities refraining from mentioned standards?
Here’s my initial idea:
$HOME
├── desktop
├── documents
│ ├── public
│ └── templates
├── downloads
├── media
│ ├── audio
│ │ ├── bleeps
│ │ └── music
│ ├── e-books
│ ├── graphics
│ │ ├── 3d
│ │ ├── raster
│ │ │ ├── palettes
│ │ │ └── wallpapers
│ │ ├── screenshots
│ │ └── vector
│ ├── photos
│ └── videos
├── sites
└── software
├── bin
├── games
│ └── roms
└── git
I changed my
user-dirs.dirsfile to this:XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/desktop" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/dl" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/docs/xdg-templates" XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/docs" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/media/music" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/media/pics" XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/media/vids"If only every application supported base directories instead of putting a .{name} file in the home dir.
.{name} is best case scenario as far as I’m concerned. Plenty of apps will default to $HOME/{name}.
That kind of crap should be marked as malware or something
Honestly. If it doesn’t support even an env variable to change it’s folder, I usually just uninstall it