There’s quite a lot of programs that make use of XDG_CONFIG, with the default set to .config in most distros. However, there’s also quite a few programs that have rejected this, sticking with a format that is not XDG-conforming.
One such example is OpenSSH, as can be seen in the following page - it makes use of the ~/.ssh directory. Why is that OpenSSH does not conform to this specification? Are there any security vulnerabilities? If so, then shouldn’t there be another specification by Freedesktop.org, which allots a secure directory for the same?
I meant directories under your
$HOME.The problem isn’t that finding files is difficult, but that a lack of specifications leads to inconsistencies and programs doing whatever they want under your home directory.
That worked fine for Unix because programs were designed to be simple. It doesn’t work today where you have programs that constantly save temporary files, caches, and data derived from user input.
You used to have to do all that stuff before too. Vim has had history, settings, caching, and plugins for ever. And it all used to sit in ~/.vim. Now it’s in ~/.config/vim. What’s the difference?