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Re: [RFE] STR #3370: use freedesktop.org XDG basedir-spec Albrecht Schlosser May 17, 2020  
 
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Link: https://www.fltk.org/str.php?L3370
Version: 1.4-feature


@Greg: I agree that this (the whole standard) appears to be pretty
complicated with all the defaults and exceptions, but the basic changes
are, broken down to where the FLTK (user) preferences would be located:

  change "~/.fltk/" to "~/.config/fltk"

The new location seems to be as easy to remember as the previous location,
particularly since [in the future] all config files *should* be located
under '~/.config/'. This has the advantage that the user's home directory
doesn't get cluttered with too many config files and dirs. See the OP's
message in GitHub issue #79: "I would like to move .fltk out of my $HOME
directory and into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME".

However, I do also agree that it would be an issue if you have two
different locations in FLTK 1.3 and FLTK 1.4 and switch applications (i.e.
FLTK versions), especially as a developer. But this can be resolved by
using the old location if the folder '~/.fltk' exists (in both versions)
and use the new location '~/.config/fltk' *only* if the old folder does not
exist (FLTK 1.4 only).

In this way users can manually move their '~/.fltk' folder to
'~/.config/fltk' once they're satisfied with the new location and don't
plan to use FLTK 1.3 any more. I believe this to be doable. If need be we
could also backport this to a new FLTK 1.3.6 release which would give users
a clean (and optional) migration path.

BTW: before I wrote this reply I did "the same" with my Git user (global)
config file. I checked `strace git config --global --list` with and found
that I had these config files related to Git

  (a) ~/.gitconfig         # git:  old location
  (b) ~/.config/git/gitk   # gitk: new location

I could move '~/.gitconfig' to '~/.config/git/config' and my Git config
kept working. Git docs say related to the global (user) config file: "The
next place Git looks is the ~/.gitconfig (or ~/.config/git/config) file,
which is specific to each user"
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration

Finally it could be as easy as this, either '~/.fltk/*' or
'~/.config/fltk/*'. Doesn't sound too complicated, does it?

One final remark (for now): Matt *did* already change and document some of
the Fl_Preferences locations in a recent commit in FLTK 1.4 and I'd like to
continue this with the new standard in mind. This way we can have this all
done in FLTK 1.4.0.


Link: https://www.fltk.org/str.php?L3370
Version: 1.4-feature


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