| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| data | General location of persisted application data. Every application should have its own subdirectory here. Note: on Windows it's the same as config path. |
| config | General location of configuration files. Every application should have its own subdirectory here. Note: on Windows it's the same as data path. |
| cache | Location of cached data. Note: Not available on Windows. |
| desktop | User's desktop directory. |
| documents | User's documents. |
| pictures | User's pictures. |
| music | User's music. |
| videos | User's videos (movies). |
| downloads | Directory for user's downloaded files. |
| templates | Location of file templates (e.g. office suite document templates). Note: Not available on OS X. |
| publicShare | Public share folder. Note: Not available on Windows. |
| fonts | Location of fonts files. Note: don't rely on this on freedesktop, since it uses hardcoded paths there. Better consider using fontconfig library |
| applications | User's applications. This has different meaning across platforms. On Windows it's directory where links to programs for Start menu are stored. On OS X it's folder where applications are typically put. On Freedesktop it's directory where .desktop files are put. |
| startup | Automatically started applications. |
Locations that can be passed to writablePath and standardPaths functions.