From 34303758e6a1357d0bb41f2e300732eeb404571a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marty Oehme <marty.oehme@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:49:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] specify home directory structure

---
 .config/shell/login.d/xdg.sh |  6 ++++++
 .config/user-dirs.dirs       | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .config/user-dirs.dirs

diff --git a/.config/shell/login.d/xdg.sh b/.config/shell/login.d/xdg.sh
index 9e5c596..de86d61 100644
--- a/.config/shell/login.d/xdg.sh
+++ b/.config/shell/login.d/xdg.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# these are mandatory for the shell to work
 export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
 export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"
+
+# these are my personal 'important' directories
+
+export XDG_PROJECTS_DIR="$HOME/projects"
+
 export EDITOR=nvim
diff --git a/.config/user-dirs.dirs b/.config/user-dirs.dirs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0384e6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/user-dirs.dirs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
+# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
+# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run.
+# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
+# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
+# absolute path. No other format is supported.
+#
+XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/desktop"
+XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads"
+XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/templates"
+XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/public"
+XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/documents"
+XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/music"
+XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/pictures"
+XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/videos"