Wrong directory for python scripts in documentation, PREFIX and not XDG_CONFIG_HOME

[mgavioli]

Context: FontForge 2020-03-14 AppImage on Linux Mint 19.3 (<= Ubuntu 18.04)

In the https://fontforge.org/docs/scripting/python/fontforge.html documentation page, it says:

“When FontForge starts (if it’s a FontForge with python) it will look at the directories $(PREFIX)/share/fontforge/python and ~/.FontForge/python and attempt to run all files in those directories which end in ".py"...”

On my machine, after several trials and errors, I discovered that the user directory for python scripts is actually ~/.config/fontforge/python (which was already there, I hadn‘t to create it).

Is it an Ubuntu-specific detail or is the documentation out-of-date?

[jtanx]

Just guessing but it might be some xdg thing

[ctrlcctrlv]

Yeah, I was thinking the same, probably $XDG_CONFIG_HOME moved. Really, that should always have been the variable in the docs, not $PREFIX.