Amos Wenger

@shunsei just to clarify (my initial response had a rather bland tone): I completely sympathize with your request. let's look at practical fixes: * electron upstream is not going to...

> Would this new ~/.itch directory still contain all different kinds of files though? Yep, except if we go *even more involved* and start splitting folders even more. My original...

itch v25 is out, and: - it ships with a new installer system - which installs itch binaries to `~/.itch` - and config/cookies/etc. to `~/.config/itch` - and you can add...

> I am depressed to see that the decision was made to migrate from ~/.config/foo to ~/.foo instead of the appropriate ~/.local/share/foo and ~/.cache as suggested in the original issue...

Thinking about this some more, /cc @shunsei @sparr Currently, itch v25 uses two directories: * `~/.itch` (where itch-setup installs binaries), which contains: * The itch binary itself (modified electron binary)...

GPUCache is less than one megabyte for me atm (but the app is not running). The larger caches are in Partitions, they're mostly images but mixed in with HTML5 save...

So, moving `~/.config/itch` to `~/.local/share/itch` seems like a good (achievable) first step? It would: * Leave `~/.config` alone * Not use any of the non-XDG dirs like `~/.local/lib`, `~/.local/bin` *...

(note that, anywhere I say `~/.config`, I mean `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` falling back to `$HOME/.config`, and the same is true for `~/.local/share`, `~/.cache` etc.)

> Just don't use `~/.itch` (https://0x46.net/thoughts/2019/02/01/dotfile-madness/) So, here's the thing that bothers me about this article: it says "just read the standard and follow it, duh!" - well, I've read...

Probably not the best, but here's a quick try: