Put doomy files in XDG directories instead of home folder on Linux

[electricbrass]

Or at least provide an option. I would very much prefer to keep my files more organized.

[electricbrass]

Now that I'm using it some more, I'm seeing all the other files it creates that should also go into other XDG directories.

file/directory	xdg location
doomy.db	XDG_DATA_HOME/doomy
doomy.log	XDG_STATE_HOME/doomy
doomy.properties	XDG_CONFIG_HOME/doomy
temp	XDG_CACHE_HOME/doomy (i think)
presets	these folders are empty so far so idk what exactly they are

[MTrop]

The preset folders are for saved games, screenshots, and other things generated by the engine that you may not want to mix with other PWAD/IWAD combos. They probably belong in XDG_DATA_HOME/doomy.

Not sure how I'll be able to set up where the config lies, cleanly. I do, however, have a hidden portable mode in Doomy that moves the config to the install directory (just add portable.txt to the program folder), so the mechanism is there.

Are the XDG macros environment variables, or are they placeholders for the actual paths?

[electricbrass]

They are environment variables, and the XDG specifically also lists default paths to be used when the variables are not defined.
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/

[electricbrass]

I've tried putting a portable.txt next to the jar and the bash wrapper and it doesn't seem to be having any effect.

[MTrop]

The portable.txt file has to be in the working directory of Doomy, which I guess is a solution that doesn't exactly work if running from an arbitrary directory from the command line.

I'll have to rethink how I'm making "setting environments".