Config directory and picture directory are hardcoded

[Thaodan]

Waypaper hardcodes ~/.config as directory for configuration instead of first looking into ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME} and then falling back to ~/.config.

The situation is similar for the pictures directory which would require to parse ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.dirs to get XDG_PICTURES_DIR.

The platformdirs module should be useful for both cases.

You can append a pathlib object with a string by doing: path / string e.g. path / foo.exist().

[anufrievroman]

Good idea 👍 Do you think some Linux systems have it not in ~/.config? Currently, I am a bit occupied but I'll try to look into it.

[Thaodan]

Good idea 👍 Do you think some Linux systems have it not in ~/.config?

On my system I did set it to ~/.local/etc to have everything in ~/.local to only have dot-folder, that's how I noticed it. But usually that's not the case, during testing it can be handy thou to set these directories to something else.

Currently, I am a bit occupied but I'll try to look into it.

I worked on it last night, including fixing some other bugs such as that waypaper doesn't work if GdxPixbuf can't open an image. Only issue is that the index still counts the files that shouldn't be decoded, either not show them at all or use a placeholder.

The branch can be found here but it's not finished: https://github.com/thaodan/waypaper/tree/xdg_dirs