[Bug 48955] Use xdg basedir spec

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48955

--- Comment #2 from Olivier F. R. Dierick <o.dierick at piezo-forte.be> ---
Hello,

My opinion is that it would be impractical to split the wineprefixes in 3 parts
and it's not worth the effort. 

Support for XDG standard is application-specific design.
Wine runs Windows applications.
They are not XDG compliant and Wine can't do anything about it.

We could split 'well known' paths that theoretically contain config (registry
files), cache (temp dirs) or data (ProgamData, Program Files, Windows) files,
but the Windows application itself will never cooperate.
It can put files anywhere.
It's best to consider the wineprefix as a single, independent, hierarchy that
follows the 'Windows' standard.

Keep in mind that ~/.wine is only the default wineprefix and most users have
more than one wineprefix. How would Wine deal with multiple wineprefixes with
those XDG_*_HOME settings?

What would become of the WINEPREFIX variable and things that depends on
it/expect the files to be in a single location?

The use of single-directory wineprefixes is a long-standing thing and changing
it will cause lot of trouble (Broken scripts and angry users) for no benefit at
all. It'll require a global redesign of Wine's wineprefix management.

Not everyone wants to mix Wine stuff with their normal user files. Not everyone
wants to use their XDG configuration for Wine stuff.

I'm sure they are other arguments against the use of XDG standard for
wineprefixes.

If all you want is to unclutter your home directory by moving ~/.wine away,
just put it wherever you want (in your XDG_DATA_HOME if you wish so) and set
WINEPREFIX to the new location when invoking Wine.

Regards.

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