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cslarsen / wpm

Typeracer-like console app for measuring your WPM
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Store config files according to platform defined app config location #42

Open cjbassi opened 5 years ago

cjbassi commented 5 years ago

First off just want to say I enjoy wpm a lot. The issue I'm opening here is that the .wpmrc and .wpm.csv files are stored in the home directory but they should be moved to ~/.config/wpm/ by default.

cslarsen commented 5 years ago

Thanks! Just wondering why. How widely supported is this? I am thinking outside of Linux systems (these days that would mostly be BSD, I guess).

cjbassi commented 5 years ago
  1. Keeps the home directory clean
  2. Stores config files in one place
  3. Stores each app's config files in a separate folder

It's the de facto standard on Linux and the recommended way to store app files now (it hasn't always been a standard) and I think the BSDs use it too.

cjbassi commented 5 years ago

So I forgot XDG is only supported on Linux and BSD, while OSX has its own standardization. go-appdir has a good list of what the standardization is for each platform, including osx. And osx support would have to be added to #43.