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Honestly it's a mess
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~/.configsuperiorityI 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:
Which imo is how every modern application should work
For number 2, is it hard-coded to
~/.configor does it readXDG_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
$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEinstead of$HOME/.config.$HOME/.configcould be a fallback if$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEisn't set. :)I agree.
No, they should read XDG variables. I have my configs on another drive.