• DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    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

    • dan@upvote.au
      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.

      • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        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

        • dan@upvote.au
          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. :)