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Honestly it's a mess (lemmy.world)
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[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 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.

[-] nul9o9@lemmy.world 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.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 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

[-] dan@upvote.au 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.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 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

[-] dan@upvote.au 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. :)

[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I agree.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 10 months ago

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

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