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minimal terminal emulator for wayland
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Support a system wide config file #25

Closed ericonr closed 4 years ago

ericonr commented 4 years ago

Hey there!

A install target could be added into the makefile that installs the default havoc.cfg into a directory like /usr/share/havoc/ or /etc/havoc/ (I prefer the first one). That way, if the terminal is packaged, users have a default document to use as reference. It would be interesting if it was also supported as one of the places that havoc looks for a config file.

I am interested in implementing this (would probably be quite simple) if you think it's a feature you want.

ii8 commented 4 years ago

I don't really see why you would want that, all of the options in havoc.cfg are personal preference, so systemwide config isn't much use.

Example configuration can be installed in a place such as /usr/share/examples (on void linux, didn't check other distros) by the package manager.

Otherwise, the proper way to provide users with a reference is to add a manpage.

ii8 commented 4 years ago

/usr/share/havoc would be the wrong place for configuration anyway I think: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html You can also see implementing systemwide config($XDG_CONFIG_DIRS) adherence is not completely trivial and makes it harder for the user to find where configuration is coming from.

ii8 commented 4 years ago

I'm closing this, feel free to re-open if you disagree with what I said.

ericonr commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the quick response, sorry for my delay. I see what you mean, though! A file in /usr/share/example should indeed be enough.