Bahman M. (@bahmanm@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 1 image My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024. Please store your #Linux #desktop application configurations ONLY in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME`. NOT in `$HOME` or other non-standard or obsolete places. May #FreeDesktop be your guide. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ #Programming #DevOps #SysAdmin

Seriously stop polluting my $HOME!

.pki .mozilla .java .gnupg .emacs.d .cargo .thunderbird .steam

dotfiles and their consequences were a disaster for the penguin race.

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This is a very petty issue but I'm still PISSED. angery

  • bunnygirl [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    Sometimes you can move stuff to the xdg user dirs but it just won't default there! The Archwiki page has a list of applications w/ tips on how to change them

    Of the ones in the screenshot I know for a fact you can move the emacs config dir from ~/.emacs.d to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs and it'll use that directory as long as ~/.emacs.d/init.el and/or ~/.emacs(.el) don't exist

    (I have spent a lot of time trying to keep my home folder clean 🙃🙃🙃)

    • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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      4 months ago

      auto checks which files can be moved to make it a little less manual
      https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

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    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      4 months ago

      The Archwiki page has a list of applications w/ tips on how to change them

      I generally think the volunteers who work on these projects deserve the utmost respect on their issue trackers and official channels, but the ones in this list marked as "wontfix" deserve pigpoopballs in their pull requests.

      • bunnygirl [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        Oh, it is endlessly frustrating and almost always for the dumbest reasons you can imagine