Use XDG_BaseDir spec

[WhyNotHugo]

The XDG basedir spec defines locations for application configuration files, data files, and cache (amongst others).

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

This separation allows (amongst others):

• Cleaning up $HOME
• Keeping separate configuration and data (I sync my config across computers with git, so it helps to keep stuff in place).

[geier]

XDG_CONFIG_HOME should already be supported, did you try it?

[WhyNotHugo]

It works. :+1:

However, a few details:

• The docs don't mention support for these.
• Data isn't saved to $XDG_DATA_HOME, but to .pycarddav.

You might also want to use pyxdg or python-xdg instead of writing your own helper, just to keep the code simpler/smaller. :)

[geier]

thanks, I'll have a look at these!