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

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    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      6 months ago

      What I want in $HOME are the following directories:

      If I’m on a GUI-based environment:

      • Desktop
      • Documents
      • Downloads

      In general:

      • .local
      • my_junk_folder_i_made

      I’d like everything else to live within something like ~/.local thanks

      • dan@upvote.au
        8·
        6 months ago

        Maybe Linux should have .local and .roaming folders like Windows. local = only useful on this system, roaming = good to sync across systems. Config would be in .roaming if it’s not machine-specific.

        • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
          6·
          5 months ago

          The only practical difference between Local and Roaming and LocalLow is that developers randomly pick one and dump your game saves in there.

          • dan@upvote.au
            6·
            6 months ago

            There’s some stuff in~/.config that’s specific to the computer. KDE is a good example - a lot of KDE apps mix config and state in the same file. There’s some solutions for syncing these files, like https://github.com/VorpalBlade/chezmoi_modify_manager which is an addon to Chezmoi that can exclude particular keys when storing an INI-style config file in Git.

            I’m sure there’s some config files in there that are entirely specific to the computer. Things like the Wayland per-monitor scaling settings are in there somewhere I think.

            There’s also things like data files that you may want to keep in sync across machines. They’re not really configs.

        • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
          1·
          5 months ago

          There is a .local folder these days.

          Profile roaming hasn’t been solved aside from NFS mounts. I guess Syncthing might work.

          • dan@upvote.au
            1·
            5 months ago

            I know .local exists - My comment was more about .roaming which would be nice to exist, but doesn’t currently exist.

            Profile roaming hasn’t been solved aside from NFS mounts. I guess Syncthing might work.

            I’m using Chezmoi to sync some dotfiles, scripts, etc. to a Git repo and that seems to work well enough for me. I’m not syncing much yet, though.