Afaik, XDG defines $XDG_DATA_HOME or ~/.local/share to be the location for such data, and various other chat clients use it for logs (it doesn't exactly match /usr/share because XDG doesn't care for the rest of ~/.local). -- Mantas Mikulėnas <<a href="mailto:grawity@gmail.com">grawity@gmail.com</a>> // sent from phone <div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 4, 2014 12:08 PM, "Ivan Romanov" <<a href="mailto:drizt@land.ru">drizt@land.ru</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hello. Now specification defines system variable persistent data dir (/var) but not defines similar directory for user data. I developer of Psi+ (IM client) when I was implementing XDG Base Directory Specification was questions where should be saved user conversation history. How I understand ~/.config is used for any settings of application, ~/.local/share is analogue of /usr/share, ~/.cache for data which always can be regenerated and can be freely removed. So no one from these dirs is not suitable for saving user data which is generating by application and needest only in this application on this machine (user conversation history for example). So I would like to see Persistent Variable User Data Directory in specification. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a> </blockquote></div>