Warning, I’m about to get on my mild OCD soapbox again. Too many development tools expect to get the privilege of a config file in the root directory of my projects. Many of them don’t even allow it to be a hidden file—they just require a fully unhidden “tool.yml” file sitting right there in the root of your project. Stop it. Please. Linux HOME Directory Link to heading Once upon a time this was a serious problem for organizing files in the Linux HOME directory too. Tools thought way too much of themselves and added files, directories, etc. to your HOME folder. A lot of them still do!
    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, everyone (every-app) thinks they are special and deserve a “.place” in ~ because : <enter their reason>.

      • ssh because “I’m SSH!”, similar for gpg
      • npm because “I’m a package manager”
      • dillo because “I am old and can’t be bothered to update my dirs”
        • I guess I should send them a patch. It shouldn’t be too hard to make that little change.
      • fltk same as dillo maybe
      • .mozilla : “Oh but I AM special”
      • .bundle : There is literally only 1 subdir in it and it is named “cache”. they could have just done “~/.cache/bundle” instead

      IDK why you have a .kde in your screenshot. Debian maybe, or a dir remaining from KDE4? I had an old one remaining in Debain after I upgraded.

      • .config
      • .local
      • .cache

      These are what we need to stuff everything into.

      • Samueru_sama@programming.devEnglish
        12·
        1 day ago

        .mozilla : “Oh but I AM special”

        You would think that thunderbird would use ~/.mozilla as well but nope. It is ~/.thunderbird 🤣