I’m looking to restructure my home folder. Have for a long time used the standard XDG user directory structure ($HOME/{Desktop,Documents,Downloads...}) 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
  • cheer
    7·
    4 years ago

    I changed my user-dirs.dirs file 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.

    • Kohen Shaw
      21·
      4 years ago

      .{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

      • cheer
        4·
        4 years ago

        Honestly. If it doesn’t support even an env variable to change it’s folder, I usually just uninstall it