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Xdg.Directories

A .NET Standard library for the XDG Base Directory Specification and XDG user directories.

Xdg.Net is a small (the .dll is only 11 KB), fast and portable (Completely supports .NET Standard 2.0 and even NativeAOT!) .NET implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification and XDG user directories for Windows, MacOS and Linux/FreeBSD.

Full documentation can be found at https://xdg-net.github.io/Xdg.Directories/

Installation

Use NuGet to install Xdg.Directories.

From the .NET CLI:

dotnet add package Xdg.Directories

or from Visual Studio's package manager:

Install-Package Xdg.Directories

Pre-releases

Preview releases are uploaded to both GitHub packages (need GitHub account to download) and Forgejo packages (no login required).

Usage

Base Directories, C#

using System;
using Xdg.Directories;

// Prints /home/$USER/.local/share
Console.Writeline(BaseDirectory.DataHome);

// Prints /home/$USER/.cache
Console.Writeline(BaseDirectory.CacheHome)

User Directories, F#

open Xdg.Directories

// Prints /home/$USER/Documents
printfn "%s" UserDirectory.DesktopDir

Native Library (WIP)

View the README here

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.
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