[PD] Proposal new default linux desktop config path

[Derek Kwan]

On May 09, Winfried Ritsch wrote:
> This is not urgent and can wait until next version but since already 
> discussed, here my proposal:
> 
> Like discussed in "[PD] Preferred/best practice for loading external objects" 
> thread also config files should be made to freedesktop standard conform
> like described in
> 
>  https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> 
> from 
> $(HOME)/.pdsettings to
> 
> (suggestion)
> $(HOME)/.config/pd/settings.conf
> 
> so configs from one computers home can be copied to another on migration, 
> upgrade.
> 
> mfG 
>  Winfried Ritsch
> 

Hello,

Sorry for jumping on this late but I'm on a Linux box as well and it
looks like pd already makes a folder pure-data in .config and stores
a list of the recently opened files to recentfiles.conf so I'd like to
slightly modify your suggestion to:

${HOME}/.config/pure-data/settings.conf

Derek

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