Move config directory from .pencil to .config/pencil

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Move config directory from .pencil to .config/pencil #174

Open nazar-pc opened 7 years ago

nazar-pc commented 7 years ago

Operating system: Ubuntu 16.10
Pencil version: 3.0.0-rc1

Currently application stores configuration in ~/.pencil directory, which pollutes home directory. For modern apps it is more common to place configuration in ~/.config/pencil.

HEXcube commented 7 years ago

Like @nazar-pc pointed out, placing configuration in ~/.directory is deprecated and should be avoided. According to the current freedesktop Base Directory specifications, user configuration is to be placed in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/package which, in Pencil's case is: ~/.config/pencil

For more info, refer to a similar bug report for Filezilla: :information_source: See Link