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

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> How about if we DTRT right away, and provide reasonable defaults for
> all the non-XDG platforms (assuming we prefer platform-specific
> defaults in this particular case)?  I see no real reason to install
> half-solutions.

FYI, there is no-littering package [1] trying to provide unified
directory structure within .emacs.d.  It follows the same idea of
unified set of abstract directory variables for different types of data:
- etc-directory
- var-directory

Essentially, it is similar to XDG directory set, but all the directories
are inside .emacs.d by default.

I think that putting things in a reasonably-names directories inside
.emacs.d can be a meaningful default, unless there is an OS-specific
standard (XDG on Linux, de-facto standard on Windows or Mac).

The question is what kind of directories are actually useful within
Emacs.

[1] https://github.com/emacscollective/no-littering

Best,
Ihor