would be neat if programs on linux didnt insist on ~/[Downloads,Documents,Desktop,Videos,etc] existing in the home dir. capitalization is annoying when the rest of the system Doesnt Do That

@0x57e11a It's nominally configurable, fwiw: wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_u

... but a nonzero number of applications just hardcodes the paths and doesn't check the XDG directories as they should 🙄

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... but a nonzero number of applications just hardcodes the paths and doesn't check the XDG directories as they should 🙄

Uhhh as someone who uses a localized system, and has the folders set to the default Portuguese names, I don’t think I ever encountered anything that hardcoded them. Those names have been localized for a while now, so hardcoding would mean only working in English.

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@luana @0x57e11a Yep, I have in the past run into systems that had both a localized and an English-language version of the folders because one or two applications hardcoded the paths (but it's been too long to still remember which applications they were)

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