Bug 1155265

Summary:	[rfe] support xdg base dir
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <metherid>
Component:	procps-ng	Assignee:	Jan Rybar <jrybar>
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2014-10-21 18:45:59 UTC

Description of problem:

top shows its configuration directly in home (~/.toprc).  I would suggest following the xdg base dir spec that is widely adopted (GNOME, KDE, git, transmission etc). 

References:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

A non spec rationale

http://ploum.net/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders/

A c library implementation

https://github.com/devnev/libxdg-basedir

Comment 1 Jan Rybar 2023-03-23 15:03:09 UTC

https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/a81a74a1df01e3bd92a463aca2167bcfa9b3ee9f