<div dir="ltr">MUSIC, PICTURES and VIDEOS may be used by applications as default folder to look for this kind of files. E.g. VLC uses it to make playlists named My Music, My Videos and My Pictures (not sure why VLC cares about pictures though).<div>Shotwell uses Pictures folder ti import photos.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Thomas U. Grüttmüller <<a href="mailto:sloyment@gmx.net" target="_blank">sloyment@gmx.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello, I could not find within the documentation of xdg-user-dirs anything about the *purpose* of these directories. For some dirs, their purpose is obvious, for others not. DESKTOP *Some* file managers display this folder in the root window. Others, e.g. ROX, don’t. TEMPLATES This looks very useful. You can put file templates there. Each of them will generate a menu item in the file manager like “New HTML file…”. DOWNLOAD This folder is a dump where the web browser will put all sorts of downloaded files. After a short time there will be total chaos. :-( PUBLICSHARE This looks interesting. Has it ever been implemented? It reminds me of the public_html folder found in older distributions. DOCUMENTS The purpose is not obvious. Gimp uses it as a default to save pictures; Anki uses it to store its configuration files… MUSIC PICTURES VIDEOS No program seems to use these folders. Their purpose is not obvious to me. Greetings, Thomas _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> </blockquote></div> </div>