home.preferXdgDirectories = true; should be stronger for home-manager / nix itself

[fxzzi]

Description

I like keeping my ~ folder tidy and clean. After using home-manager I noticed that it kept making the ~/.icons directory when I had icon themes and cursor theme options enabled. However this directory should not be used. home-manager even knows this and puts the same stuff in ~/.local/share/icons which is the correct place to put it.

With the option home.preferXdgDirectories = true;, I was expecting home-manager to stop creating these erroneous folders which don't follow the xdg base spec. However it's still created.

How could I stop the ~/.icons directory from being created by home-manager? And on that note what about ~/.nix-profile and .nix-defexpr?

thanks!

[teto]

the last two depend on your nix config use-xdg-base-directories (man nix.conf).

As for the first point. A quick grep returned modules/config/home-cursor.nix if you want to hack on it.