On 21/12/16 09:39, Janek F wrote: > After trying surf recently, I was appalled to see a ".surf" directory in my > home. > Is XDG basedir compliance not natural in suckless software?
Suckless software follows the principles that predate X Desktop Group and its specifications, as well as its own principles. Before 2000, it was customary in GNU/Linux to have user-specific configuration files in the user's home directory, starting with a dot. For example, vim's configuration file is ~/.vimrc, joe's configuration file is ~/.joerc and so on. Those files are commonly called "dotfiles", because they literally start with a dot, and programs like ls omit listing them by default (they are "hidden"). In addition, suckless software has its own convention, which is to configure software by changing a header file in its source code, usually located in the file config.h in the source directory of a particular program.
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