PathPicker pollutes user home directory

PathPicker creates multiple files in the user home directory:

$ ls .fb*
.fbPager.log  .fbPager.pickle  .fbPager.selection.pickle  .fbPager.sh

Normally such files are stored under $HOME/.local/share or $HOME/.config directory on Linux. Please see XDG Base Directory Specification for details.

[SamHasler]

Would supporting XDG_CONFIG_HOME if it’s set give more users a cleaner home dir by default? On Dec 30, 2015 5:23 PM, “Peter Cottle” [e-mail] wrote:

Yeah I would be fine with that – would accept the PR as long as it has a sane default and some basic test coverage (and would be in the help output). We have a number of env variables right now but so far its manageable

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[SamHasler]

I know. I’m just saying if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, use it, as that’s where that user keeps their config. On Dec 31, 2015 2:25 PM, “Victor Zverovich” [e-mail] wrote:

@SamHasler https://github.com/SamHasler XDG_CONFIG_HOME may not be set by default (it is not set on Ubuntu 14.04 for instance).

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