• Smorty [she/her]
    1•1 year ago

    so ya just put so the stuff in there? is there a reason for that specific directory (I’m kinda a noob)

      • @nul9o9
        6•1 year ago

        Every project should at least move the default config location to the ./config folder. Even better if they create their own subdirectory in there.

        • DreamButtEnglish
          6•1 year ago

          Every tool I build checks three places:

          1. An env variable (if it exists) which should point to a dir of the users choosing
          2. ~/.config/tool-name/
          3. ~/.tool-name

          Which imo is how every modern application should work

          • @[email protected]
            1•1 year ago

            For number 2, is it hard-coded to ~/.config or does it read XDG_CONFIG_HOME? The latter is what it should do, so that the user has the flexibility to move all their configs elsewhere.

            • DreamButtEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              It’s from $HOME so you would want to use the first option

              But it’s GTK that var is used by some people

              • @[email protected]
                2•1 year ago

                Please follow XDG specs and use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME instead of $HOME/.config. $HOME/.config could be a fallback if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME isn’t set. :)