https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41668
--- Comment #7 from Rafał Mużyło galtgendo@o2.pl --- @comment 6:
Someone's either missing the point or is by-choice off topic.
1. While I don't really use xdg user dirs, even if I did, I'd want them and any wine produced data dirs *separated*. Just as in the case of file associations, I consider any merging of those a misfeature.
2. OK, minor correction, it seems that those English dirs aren't actually English, just for yet another locale - I use the same prefix for apps run in different locales and see no reason why that should work.
On the plus side, at least it's not a data loss bug: as long as the dir isn't empty, wineboot doesn't overwrite it.
It's impractical to have Wine figure when or not to update symlinks.
Completely disagree with that. wine is going Windows route here: trying to be smarter than the user in a dumb way without any sane method for an override (...). Building a separate env var set just for wine isn't one. I consider Gnome designs flawed and see strong resemblance here.