Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines"

waigl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Screenshot is from Windows where dotfiles aren’t hidden by default. And all the lazy developers that created those directories, didn’t bother to set the hidden attribute (See appdata is greyed, because it has the hidden attribute set)

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To be fair, those Windows directories might have a space in them and break things anyway.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Directories can have spaces in their name on other platforms too. You can set the XDG environment variables to whatever you want, so eg. instead of using ~/.configyou could use ~/My Config Files

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      • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ya, I’m just joking about apps, or especially scripts, not handling it properly.

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• TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i.pinimg.com/…/e05ab30c26dbdc80317e610f16107bda.j…

  There are a million reasons to access those folders. There are 0 reasons to leave them hidden.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    only if you are a power user. for most people its just clutter in the way of the files they are looking for.

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