To alleviate the issue with most applications dumping their files in your home directory, i found xdg-ninja[0] to be helpful.
In short, it scans all your programs and determines if you can configure it to respect the xdg standards. It doesn't work for everything, but most applications do seem to have such an option.
In short, it scans all your programs and determines if you can configure it to respect the xdg standards. It doesn't work for everything, but most applications do seem to have such an option.
[0] https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja