structure of desktop file directories

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Simon McVittie
<simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
>
> That only works for system-wide installations as root
> (/usr/share/applications and perhaps, depending how the spec is worded,
> /usr/local/share/applications). The search path is longer than that:
> ~/.local/share/applications by default, and setting XDG_DATA_HOME or
> XDG_DATA_DIRS changes it per-user and perhaps even per-process.

Doesn't /var have an equivalent in ~/.local/var or something similar?

J. Leclanche