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Honestly it's a mess (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

~/.config superiority

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I would fucking love it if I could put all my configs there, but unfortunately every other CLI tool seems to feel it needs a spot in the home dir instead..

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's used to store configuration files for various applications so they don't clutter up your home directory. For example, you can put your Emacs config files in ~/.config/emacs instead of ~/.emacs.d. Not every program supports it though.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months 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 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months 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 points 10 months 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. :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I agree.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No, they should read XDG variables. I have my configs on another drive.

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