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This proposal calls for developers to adopt a standard within their projects, as opposed to addressing where configuration files for installed software should live within a user's home directory.

https://dotmeta.org, note projects

  This site exists to advocate that software libraries look for their config files in .meta directories of projects.

  This is avoid making a mess in the root directory of projects, as this tweet laments.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-..., note users

  ## Basics
  The XDG Base Directory Specification is based on the following concepts:
  - There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific data files should be written. This directory is defined by the environment variable $XDG_DATA_HOME.