[gnomewascool]

> You can change gnupg's home dir, but it would break a lot of currently functional setups if it just moved.

You can just change the default: if .gnupg exists, write everything to it. If not, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnupg/ and $XDG_DATA_HOME/gnupg/ as appropriate (deciding how to carry out the split is not obvious, but can be done).

I agree, though, that calling it "shaming" is neither justified, nor useful.

[afiori]

> (deciding how to carry out the split is not obvious, but can be done).

For this reason I like better the windows distinction, that (if I understand in correctly) distinguishes between machine-dependent files and machine independent files. for something like gnupg I would not really say what is data and what is configuration

[pseudalopex]

It can be just as hard to say what should be local and what should be roaming.

[fxfan]

Is that what appdata and appdataroaming are?