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Thunderbird Littering My Home

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Re: Thunderbird Littering My Home

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Post by lomlobon »

I've long given up on keeping a clean home folder because so many software do this and keeping it clean is a constant chore. Now I just make a real_home folder in my 'home' and put all my actual stuff there. They can use the ~ landfill

Re: Thunderbird Littering My Home

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Post by the__alchemist »

There are so many annoyances in TB. I stopped using it after a few days. My primary concerns:

  - Opening an email thread opens multiple (potentially many) tabs, and is difficult to nagivate or understand the flow of messages
  - I don't know how to write an email without it making the spacing between paragraphs/lines larger than I would like. (I.e. double-spacing)
  - Search is unreliable / broken.

Re: Thunderbird Littering My Home

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

Most of the time, you can control where XDG puts its litter, cf. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories

Just note that XDG_DESKTOP_DIR and XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR can not point to the same directory or chromium will disregard your config.

P.S. Reader, if you can commit to chromium without much hassle, check this and fix: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Talk:XDG_user_directories

Re: Thunderbird Littering My Home

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Post by fph »

the__alchemist wrote: post #3

There are so many annoyances in TB. I stopped using it after a few days. My primary concerns: - Opening an email thread opens multiple (potentially many) tabs, and is difficult to nagivate or understand the flow of messages - I don't know how to write an email without it making the spacing between paragraphs/lines larger than I would like. (I.e. double-spacing) - Search is unreliable / broken.

What did you replace it with?

Re: Thunderbird Littering My Home

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

fph wrote: post #5
the__alchemist wrote: post #3

There are so many annoyances in TB. I stopped using it after a few days. My primary concerns: - Opening an email thread opens multiple (potentially many) tabs, and is difficult to nagivate or understand the flow of messages - I don't know how to write an email without it making the spacing between paragraphs/lines larger than I would like. (I.e. double-spacing) - Search is unreliable / broken.

What did you replace it with?

mutt?

Re: Thunderbird Littering My Home

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Post by neuropacabra »

lomlobon wrote: post #2

I've long given up on keeping a clean home folder because so many software do this and keeping it clean is a constant chore. Now I just make a real_home folder in my 'home' and put all my actual stuff there. They can use the ~ landfill

I stopped using that software no matter how painful it was some games included. I wanted to play BG2 and the remake from GOG just litter the Documents folder even when running though Wine. Well, no game for then. Pity. I want my computer to serve me and to have my own files where yo want them.

Re: Thunderbird Littering My Home

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Post by nixosbestos »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #4

Most of the time, you can control where XDG puts its litter, cf. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories Just note that XDG_DESKTOP_DIR and XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR can not point to the same directory or chromium will disregard your config. P.S. Reader, if you can commit to chromium without much hassle, check this and fix: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Talk:XDG_user_directories

You (and other folks...) should probably click-through to the bugzilla links. Yes, normally. But, it looks like some legacy code path near the XDG stuff caused an accidental extra dir creation.

(I was rolling my eye wading in, thinking that Thunderbird was doing XDG and maybe some distro just wasn't setting XDG_CONFIG_HOME correctly, etc, but alas, no it's a TB bug)

Re: Thunderbird Littering My Home

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Post by miduil »

You can skip inotify tools altogether and do use systemd like this to trigger `rm -rf`:

    `~/.config/systemd/user/remove-thunderbird-dir.path`

   [Unit]
   Description=Watch for unwanted ~/thunderbird directory
   

   [Path]
   PathExists=%h/thunderbird
   Unit=remove-thunderbird-dir.service
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=default.target

Re: Thunderbird Littering My Home

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Post by Saris »

the__alchemist wrote: post #3

There are so many annoyances in TB. I stopped using it after a few days. My primary concerns: - Opening an email thread opens multiple (potentially many) tabs, and is difficult to nagivate or understand the flow of messages - I don't know how to write an email without it making the spacing between paragraphs/lines larger than I would like. (I.e. double-spacing) - Search is unreliable / broken.

Shift+Enter for a normal new line. No idea why it's like this.
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