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.

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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...