Well, that is not really an argument against my proposal, is it? Some other tools still creating files like davfs does doesn't justify continuing doing so with no other reason given.

Well, I don't really like having more $HOME folder cluttered with a lot of hidden files. Also the standard is really established. Pretty much every application I use uses it besides something like ssh where `.ssh` is also used by other applications.

davfs is one of the only programs that create dotfiles in my home directory, which is kinda unpleasant. Please consider being able to set that directory somewhere else or just use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, $XDG_CACHE_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME and the respective defaults