Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory

Y'all don't just do everything out of your Downloads folder?

I like this idea. I've been doing pretty much the same thing for a while now, though it's been a subdirectory of Documents.

Everyone complaining, and here I am not having noticed the change because I've created that directory for myself years ago :-P

Personally its for organisation

I’ve always had a projects folder, so this works for me I guess.

~/prjcts

Its amazing how bothered people are by a fucking folder 😂

But why are the names camel Pascal cased? It's a little bit more annoying to type.

Honestly I say just let the user decide what goes in their home directory. I always get annoyed at all the random garbage in there. There should be a specific place that is user owned that isn't filled with cruft and configuration files

Ahh, I was wondering why there's a Projects next to my projects, I thought I just made a typo at some point

Now make all of default XDG directories lowercase. Nothing else is capitalized in the file system - why do these directories get an exception?

Hah, thats funny, I... literally have a 'Projects' folder, though I'm running Bazzite.

hoists suspenders

Yep, made that folder on my own, gets the job done, mhrm.

... lol

(pleasedonotlookinsidetheProjectsfolderdeargoditissuchamess)

Okay so next up is the Porn folder, right?!

Those files all go in documents. Jesus, why are we doing it this way?

Honestly I don't mind this at all.

When I start a Godot projects, putting the project into Documents makes very little sense to me.

It's pretty much the first folder I add on a fresh install, gotta keep that shit contained

I never even thought to check. Was Games not a default folder?

how about first getting programs to put dotfiles into the .config folder (opposed to .programname) instead of adding more folders that are inconsistent over distros for multiple years before the point of a default for IDEs and CAD programs can even be meaningfully made?

The article should also mention the new XDG variable itself, please.

And also, the XDG people should've thought of a more flexible way, that allows unlimited custom icon-directory associations. Now, we have some file managers, that do it their own way, most don't allow custom directory icons.

I always change the defaults to another place and to have another naming. Just camel casing those folders is already stupidly annoying. I guess one more silly one into another folder out of view.

I already do the following:

• media with images, music and videos inside
• changes to small case for desktop and download
• change documents to docs
• create another folder called shares which I moved the public folder inside.
• hide the templates folder that nobody knows what is it for, so it becomes .templates
• no idea what the projects is supposed to be about, maybe I can map it to the already existing dev folder...

I wish they would combine Pictures and Videos into Media.

And that's where it should stop.

I already make my own Projects folder. Does this mean programs are going to start being tuned to make changes to it? Leave my adhd folder alone plz.

Sigh... Yet another thing pushed by the self-appointed nannies at freedesktop.org that I will have to manually undo on practically every new account.

At least it will probably be configurable, unlike Canonical's infamous ~/snap directory.

Even if I am against this kind of "defaults", today I learned how you customize this for any folder in the home directory !

For linux based system, you do like told in https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/

~/.config/user-dirs.dirs specifies the current set of directories for the user. This file can also be modified by users (manually or via applications) to change the directories used. Note: To disable a directory, point it to the homedir. If you delete it it will be recreated on the next login.

So at last I disabled Music, Templates, Pictures and Videos . Cleaner Home !

Idk, XDG is weird.
"Music", "Documents", "Downloads", "Public" and "Templates" are in Ukrainian;
"Public" and "Downloads" are duplicated in English;
"Desktop" is just English;
"Images" is in Russian for me for some reason.

No Projects despite me updating recently, I guess it just gave up.

I keep everything in Documents

Huh time to delete projects folder and use Projects folder

I feel called out by the first sentence of the article

Cool I guess? I'm a weirdo who always puts projects in Documents/ so... maybe I'll use it more from now on

the "for as long as I remember, Linux has always had a set of default folders.."

lmao..

they've been bugging me with their presumptuousness for decades.

They can't ask if we want those things?

Sure, I can understand people coming-from the MS-Windows paradigm needing such things done for them, but to just presume that everybody wants the defaults?

Why not simply ask, in the 1st-login, if the user wants such defaults?

Opt-in, rather than opt-out, you know?

I add a ~/prog directory, that I'm certian many who either program or are trying to learn programming, add.

Does that mean it ought be a default?

Why would I want a Public folder in my homedir?

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i deleted an empty project folder yesterday... i just assumed i made it and forgor about it

I love this! Now to remove other unwanted folders like templates and music

Good that we aren't talking about windows. Otherwise, I'd backup the original Projects folder quickly.

Fuuuuuuuck

Tbh not a bad idea but I have nightmare about windows and their 3d models folder that they put everywhere

Why? What would I want to have the folder for? I never had it with any OS I ran. It’s either in the documents, or I’d create my own directory with the name I want. I have different types of projects, so I’d prefer organising my directories myself.

I wasn’t sure the fuck this directory keeps appearing in my home, kept removing it over and over again. Can I disable that?

This breaks my workflow. I always add a workspace folder for such things.

Oh, so thats where that came from. I thought i was getting senile

I'm more of a fan of /Projects

then syncthing that between all my boxes.

~home is great on shared systems, but my projects should be in the same place for all my local accounts on my non-shared box.