Implement XDG Base Directory Specification support #499
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Sorry to bring up an old PR.. But why is this still not merged? |
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It breaks compatibility for existing users and causes confusion because of all the earlier posts which instruct users to edit their settings or post their log files which will end up in a completely different (and harder to find) location, while providing no user-visible benefits. I agree that it would have been better to use the XDG directories from the start, but at this point the disadvantages far outweigh the benefits. |
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This PR migrates the data. In hindsight (this was 4 years ago after all) I would've simply added some indirection to allow backwards compatibility with HOME-polluting configs while creating new configs in according to the proper OS standards. That would still not satisfy @MaartenBaert regarding docs but would fix things without breaking the program. Alas, I have moved to OBS since so I'll leave that to someone else. I'm closing this PR. |
Closes #407.