Plus I don't want ~/Videos or ~/Pictures folders. I am not dumb. Let me organize my folders according to my needs and my will.
The first thing I do when I setup a user account is removing those useless XDG folders.
XDG pretend to remove folder clusterfuck then why do they add their crappy folders?
No problems: define the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to be like so.
> I don't want an additional and confusing ~/.local.
The idea is that data and config are different. Anyway, if you have different taste, that's ok, define $XDG_DATA_HOME to be the same as config.
> I don't want ~/Videos or ~/Pictures folders
That's not in the XDG spec.
But it is. In the XDG user dir spec.
cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
It's not obvious at all. The only security issue is programs dumping "downloads" on your harddrive without asking you first. Sucks that this is yet another thing that Mozilla has copied from Chrome without thinking.