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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:14:42 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > How about if we DTRT right away, and provide reasonable defaults for
> > all the non-XDG platforms
> 
> Which are the "non-XDG platforms" more exactly?
> 
> Why is "~/Pictures" not a reasonable default on those platforms?

Because it goes against the platform conventions.  Or let me put it
this way: for the same reason we don't want to use ~/Pictures on
systems that use the XDG conventions.