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First post, by wolfram

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Could DOSBox please follow the XDG Base Directory Specification for the
configuration/data directory on linux/freebsd?

more infos here:
- http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec … pec-latest.html
- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LittleDetails#Use%20XDG%20folders

Reply 1 of 3, by Qbix

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and in how many years will change this again ?
Or is this expected to be stable and long lasting ?

Water flows down the stream
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Reply 3 of 3, by Earnestly

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Well, it's now 2015 and this has not changed. Not only that but more tools and
other low level utilities are adopting the standard from git to util-linux and
even jack (audio).

Would you consider it now?