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1y ago

Honestly it's a mess

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~/.config superiority
- 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..
- so ya just put so the stuff in there? is there a reason for that specific directory (I'm kinda a noob)
  
  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.
  
  Every project should at least move the default config location to the ./config folder. Even better if they create their own subdirectory in there.
  
  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
  
  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.
  
  It's from $HOME so you would want to use the first option
  But it's GTK that var is used by some people
  
  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. :)
  
  I agree.
  
  No, they should read XDG variables. I have my configs on another drive.

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