Config should be stored in a sensible place, not CWD

[SpiritQuaddicted]

The config.properties is stored in the current working directory, not in the Quake directory or next to the quakeinjector.jar.

We should either store it in the Quake directory (with a better filename) or whatever place the operating system wants configs to be store in.

[SpiritQuaddicted]

Ref for nix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org#Base_Directory_Specification

[WRFitch]

+1 for this. Storing it next to quakeinjector.jar would be preferable since it's configuring that application, rather than the quake binary.

[SpiritQuaddicted]

Hm, I much prefer using the OS' standard place to store the stuff, not sure why I suggested that other option at all when I posted this. The quakeinjector.jar is pretty much the executable which the user could store anywhere and I think it would be nice to not force the executable to the data and vice-versa. Maybe a user supplied local configuration in the same directory as the .jar could override the "nicely stored" one though?

[demoth]

I would suggest to use a common way and put the configs to user home directory - like ~/.quakeinjector for unix systems (similar thing exists for windows)

[SpiritQuaddicted]

Best would be ~/.config/QuakeInjector/ on Linux. No idea what MacOS uses. Windows should be AppData/Roaming/QuakeInjector/ or AppData/Local/QuakeInjector/ I presume although https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/app-settings/store-and-retrieve-app-data says that this is meant for volatile data.

I have a very strong preference for

Maybe a user supplied local configuration in the same directory as the .jar could override the "nicely stored" one though?

[hrehfeld]

Linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory Xdg config dir specifically 19 Jul 2022 10:01:53 SpiritQuaddicted ***@***.***>:

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Best would be ~/.config/QuakeInjector/ on Linux. No idea what MacOS uses. Windows should be AppData/Roaming/QuakeInjector/ or AppData/Local/QuakeInjector/ I presume although https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/app-settings/store-and-retrieve-app-data says that this is meant for volatile data. I have a very strong preference for Maybe a user supplied local configuration in the same directory as the .jar could override the "nicely stored" one though? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub[#117 (comment)], or unsubscribe[https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAATX55IBWJPBULKOVYVUVDVUZOGNANCNFSM4GSRQZ2Q]. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.[Tracking image][https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AAATX53L35FSBQNYOJZGY2TVUZOGNA5CNFSM4GSRQZ22YY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOI3NJD4I.gif]