Configuration files on GNU / Linux

[alabarre]

I usually create links to binary files that do not come from a package in ~/bin/ which I include in PATH to be able to launch them from anywhere.

This is a problem for QuakeInjector, because it stores its configuration in the directory from which it is launched. So launching it from, say, ~/Games/Quake/QuakeInjector will store config.properties, database.xml and installedMaps.xml in ~/Games/Quake/QuakeInjector, but launching it via the link I store in ~/bin/ will create new (and empty!) configuration files in ~/bin/ since the program cannot find the files it previously created.

Shouldn't QuakeInjector store its configuration in some fixed directory (say, ~/.quakeinjector/config/) to avoid those problems?

[SpiritQuaddicted]

Definitely! It annoys me very much too and this should not be too hard to fix for someone who knows what they are doing (at least I hope it is easy in Java to get the appropriate directory with proper modern XDG support). There is an issue already: #117