• @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. :)