Re: master f8fed41 2/3: image-dired: Improve XDG compliance

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:28:27 +0200
> Cc: "Philip K." <philipk@posteo.net>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> AFAIK, there was no standard before the XDG BDS which it could
> replace, there exists no competing standard, and so far there has been
> no standard proposed to replace it.  Is that wrong?

The original standard was to use files that begin with a dot in the
user's home directory, with system-wide defaults in /etc or /usr/etc.

Then came the standard (copy-cat from Windows) that each type of files
had its own directory under the home directory -- so we have
~/Pictures, ~/Documents, ~/Desktop, ~/Mail, etc.

And now we have XDG.

I'm sure they will invent something else in a few years, which will of
course be the best thing since sliced bread.