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Honestly it's a mess (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Every tool I build checks three places:

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