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XDG_CONFIG_HOME Should Be Used When Available #699

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FelicianoTech opened this issue Oct 13, 2019 · 2 comments · Fixed by #813
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XDG_CONFIG_HOME Should Be Used When Available #699

FelicianoTech opened this issue Oct 13, 2019 · 2 comments · Fixed by #813
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The environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME should be used when available as mentioned in the Free Desktop specification: https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

I see close mentions of this in the source code right now but it's not actually implemented.

I can work on this if it's agreed that this should be worked on.
@FelicianoTech FelicianoTech changed the title $XDG_CONFIG_HOME Should Be Used When Available XDG_CONFIG_HOME Should Be Used When Available Oct 13, 2019
@senorprogrammer senorprogrammer added the 💪 improvement "Where we're going, we don't need roads." label Oct 15, 2019
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Agreed. This would be an excellent improvement.

@Seanstoppable Seanstoppable mentioned this issue Jan 9, 2020
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OJFord commented May 17, 2020

Note that the docs currently still say just 'looks in .config/wtf':
https://wtfutil.com/configuration/

The value of mine does happen to be ~/.config (it's just not worth the hassle of dealing with not only $HOME polluters, but '~/.config is the same thing, right?' tools too IMO) but it'd be good to make it clear that the env var is respected.

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