Suggestion: Comply with XDG Base Directory Specification

[dennisklein]

By conincidence, I noticed that you default the ODC log directory to $HOME/.ODC/log. I would like to suggest to comply with the XDG Base Directory Specification instead of inventing yet another custom app-specific dotfiles scheme, e.g. on page 3 one can read:

$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.

$XDG_STATE_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific state files should be stored. If $XDG_STATE_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/state should be used.

The $XDG_STATE_HOME contains state data that should persist between (application) restarts, but that is not important or portable enough to the user that it should be stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME. It may contain:

• actions history (logs, history, recently used files, …)
• current state of the application that can be reused on a restart (view, layout, open files, undo history, …)

User-specific executable files may be stored in $HOME/.local/bin. Distributions should ensure this directory shows up in the UNIX $PATH environment variable, at an appropriate place.

Since $HOME might be shared between systems of different achitectures, installing compiled binaries to $HOME/.local/bin could cause problems when used on systems of differing architectures. This is often not a problem, but the fact that $HOME becomes partially achitecture-specific if compiled binaries are placed in it should be kept in mind.

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In the arch wiki you can get an idea about the adoption distribution of this spec.

Thank you for considering this (at least for linux 😉)!

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• https://farbenmeer.de/blog/the-power-of-the-xdg-base-directory-specification