[wx-dev] name for use config file?

[Robin Dunn]

Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
>  What should be the default name for the user (wxFile)Config file when it's
> localed in a subdirectory of $HOME? Currently we use ~/.appname when the
> file is directly in $HOME but I think it's not nice to still name it like
> this, resulting in names like ~/.appname/appname, when it's in a
> subdirectory. I'd like to use ~/.appname/appname.conf while the other
> possibilities include ~/.appname/appname.rc, ~/.appname/appnamerc or just
> leave it as is, i.e. without any extension. Unfortunately I couldn't find
> any Linux/FreeDesktop standard speaking about this so we have to choose
> ourselves and I'd like to do it before 2.8.2 as we won't be able to change
> it later (or the programs using the new wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR style won't
> find their files).
> 
>  What do you think?

I also don't know of any standards, but ~/.appname/config makes sense to me.

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