$Home, Not So Sweet $Home

Re:$Home, Not So Sweet $Home by JoBrad on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:04PM (#37156268)

Sounds like they have a single place to fix it, though, which is nice.

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Re:$Home, Not So Sweet $Home by halostatue on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:49PM (#37156565)

Yes. I think that the plugins should probably not be in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but in $XDG_DATA_HOME, if I’m reading correctly.

But in part my point is that there's virtually no one who gets this correct either with Linux systems or macOS, which is what makes rants like the parent article so annoying.

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Re:$Home, Not So Sweet $Home by account42 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:43AM (#37160128)

Plenty of programs get $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME.

The ones that don't are mainly lazy ports from Windows where that speration doesn't exist.

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