Support XDG Base directory specification

[InSuperposition]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
To improve organization of files and consistency of file paths, support XDG Base directory variables
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

Describe the solution you'd like
Support the XDG_* variables as an alternative to using $HOME/.kftray on Linux and OS X. Perhaps it should be the default, if variables are set..

[hcavarsan]

hey @InSuperposition thx you for the suggestion, it makes sense.

its easy to implement something like that, and from what I have seen in the lib in this code: dirs-rs, it follows the XDG_* standard only for Linux.

do you use these variables on linux and osx? cuz on osx it will respect the $FOLDERID_ variable and in this case and might not have the desired effect in your case.

i can create a workaround to explicitly check for the XDG_ variables on Unix-based systems and use them even on osx....

wdyt?

[InSuperposition]

Thanks for the information on dirs-rs. I use the XDG_* variables on osx, while this is not standard by convention, it helps my OCD of keeping an organized $HOME folder 😉

I have noticed many CLI tools (git) and terminal apps (alacritty, kitty) support the XDG_ vars on osx, however tools that use dirs-rs like starship use custom environment variables for config (and cache/state etc..):
export STARSHIP_CONFIG=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/starship/config.toml.

After thinking it over, IMO, the safest approach might be to have a KFTRAY_CONFIG variable the user can set similar to starship. I can open a ticket in the dirs-rs repo and make the suggestion to add the XDG_* vars for osx to their code base and get feedback from the developers of that library, who have more insight regarding this feature.

[hcavarsan]

yeap, that makes sense. I will try to implement the logic and read the XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable without using the library (and fallback to $HOME). I think it's quite simple. I will look into this during this week and will update you here on the issue, so there's no need to open an issue on dirs-rs. thanks!

[InSuperposition]

Thank you, I appreciate the effort you have put into kftray.