Thanks Simon for providing us the big picture about the xdg specs in your authoritative post ! >> So, if we can't tweak mame.ini using the XDG_* variable set, > my personal preference would be reverting to ~/.mame/ @cesare: Since Jordi and I have provided a written feedback on the ini file, could you have a look at http://lite.framapad.org/p/yxU1G0GEDM and edit the file to make a proposal ? Manu