• dan@upvote.au
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    2 months ago

    but please don’t hard-code ~/.config or $HOME/.config. Use the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable, with $HOME/.config as a fallback if it’s not set.

    Many programming languages have a cross-platform implementation of this built in to their standard library. C# has Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData) which uses XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux, local AppData on Windows, and whatever is the correct thing on MacOS (not very familiar with how things work on MacOS)

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Oh, no. Don’t even make it a hidden folder, it needs to be right there, front and center. And make sure you use a bunch of capital letters in the name, because you’re so fucking important.