• bitsplease@lemmy.ml
      15·
      1 year ago

      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…

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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.

          • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            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. :)