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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 points 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. :)