Default configuration paths

[samlikins]

Under the "Configuration Handling" section of the documentation, it stipulates that the default paths which are checked for a configuration file are:

• /etc/<app_label>/<app_label>.conf
• ~/.<app_label>.conf
• ~/.<app_label>/config

The plugins and templates (as with the configurations) directories have a user specific path that uses the home directory directly. This habit is in conflict with XDG Base Directory Specification; notably:

There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific configuration files should be written. This directory is defined by the environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME...

If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.

As such additional paths to check for configurations should be:

• ~/.config/<app_label>/<app_label>.conf
• ~/.config/<app_label>/config
• ~/.config/<app_label>.conf
• ~/.config/<app_label>/conf.d

Also for plugins:

• ~/.config/<app_label>/plugins.d
• ~/.config/<app_label>/plugins

Lastly for templates:

• ~/.config/<app_label>/templates

This can be accomplished with minor code modifications.

[samlikins]

The code could be further modified to check for the environment variables (ie: $XDG_DATA_HOME , $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, $XDG_DATA_DIRS, $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, $XDG_CACHE_HOME, and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR) and use their values if provided, but this is a good first step in the right direction.

[derks]

Implemented in portland (Cement 3) branch.

[derks]

Reopening this as I am re-working config files and directories and realized that these changes should probably be in it's own extension rather than baking into the core framework.