Re: [Suggestion] Relocate user startup files to their own subdirectory

[Akbarkhon Variskhanov]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 1:02 AM Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> wrote:
>
> Why is "to reduce the number of files in $HOME" always presented
> as a self-evident justification for this?

That's precisely it. FHS talks about "user consent":
> It is recommended that, apart from autosave and lock files, programs should 
> refrain
> from creating non dot files or directories in a home directory without user 
> consent.

> This suggestion has been made before, as has a similar one involving
> the XDG spec; neither has found any traction.  See these threads
> (there may be others, but I didn't search very hard):

Thanks for providing links. There's already a couple of such threads
that have come up in the last year or so. That suggests it's at least
gaining some traction.