Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> That's a different philosophy, and since it contradicts XDG, which
> many people want, I don't think we can go that way, except as an
> opt-in feature (which will then become a maintenance burden, as it
> will be yet another, third, set of defaults).

Exactly.  I think "no-litter" solves the problem of "how do I keep all
my stuff in .emacs.d without making too much of a mess of it".  It
doesn't do a bad job at solving that problem, but it is IMO exactly
the wrong problem to solve.

> So we need something like system-config.el, which would use xdg.el for
> XDG platforms, and something else for the rest.

Sounds good to me.