In XDG-compliant systems [1], it is expected to store data files under $XDG_DATA_HOME. So it would be nice if abook could store its data in $XDG_DATA_HOME/abook rather than ~/.abook
My submitted patch still uses ~/.abook if it's present as not to break existing installations but uses $XDG_DATA_HOME/abook for new installations. Here's to hoping it'll land in 0.6.2, if there's ever such a thing (with all the improvements made since 0.6.1, there should be).
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Last edit: Elvis Angelaccio 2017-05-06
My submitted patch still uses ~/.abook if it's present as not to break existing installations but uses $XDG_DATA_HOME/abook for new installations. Here's to hoping it'll land in 0.6.2, if there's ever such a thing (with all the improvements made since 0.6.1, there should be).
Keith's implementation was merged in 0.6.2