Sure, XDG was introduced in 2003, but why would you expect developers to start to follow its rules instantly? At best, it started to gain some traction 4 or 5 years after that, but still today, it is far from universally accepted.
But take a step further back: why should anyone care about what the XDG says in first place? This isn't a dictatorship, and things were doing just fine long before a handful of people who wrote the XDG thought their ideas were the best approach.
It's been my observation that good standards can be adopted broadly and quickly with little controversy or need for advocacy. The fact that the XDG file layout still isn't universally used suggests it doesn't have as much value as its proponents think.
> But take a step further back: why should anyone care about what the XDG says in first place?
Because their users are asking them to not pollute the home directory? This isn't bikeshedding config locations without reason, there is a clear motivation for letting users a) specify where data should go and b) separate different types of data.
> It's been my observation that good standards can be adopted broadly and quickly with little controversy or need for advocacy.
The XDG basedir spec has been adopted broadly amongs many organizations and individual devlopers including all major desktop environments. It is not adopted universally yet, but few things are.
But take a step further back: why should anyone care about what the XDG says in first place? This isn't a dictatorship, and things were doing just fine long before a handful of people who wrote the XDG thought their ideas were the best approach.
It's been my observation that good standards can be adopted broadly and quickly with little controversy or need for advocacy. The fact that the XDG file layout still isn't universally used suggests it doesn't have as much value as its proponents think.