Adding XDG_BIN_PATH to Omarchy (~/.local/bin)

[naxels]

I generally create/copy some shell scripts and binaries across my Linux machines & servers

and was surprised that Omarchy didn't have XDG_BIN_PATH created by default.

Accidentally I discovered that for my PC, it was configured and tracing back my steps across upgrades etc,
I discovered that installing Python (which installs uv) through the menu, adds this folder and path to $PATH..
It does it in a strange way though: /home/naxels/.local/share/../bin

I also use Omarchy on a MBP2015, but didn't install Python/uv there, that's how I found out about the missing folder/$PATH.

Then today while I was figuring out whether this was a standard or not, I came across the XDG Base Directory Spec (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/)

and saw this:

User-specific executable files may be stored in $HOME/.local/bin. Distributions should ensure this directory shows up in the UNIX $PATH environment variable, at an appropriate place.

in other places, this is referred to unofficially as XDG_BIN_PATH..

While working out a PR for Omarchy, I noticed that @dhh had just released a commit to add it to 1 location:
b97ea79

default/bash/envs

Should we officially add a XDG_BIN_PATH and create .local/bin on install and as @dhh 's commit already shows, add the .local/bin to $PATH?
as I assume, like myself, developers etc tend to create scripts/binaries they want to keep handy and preferably in $PATH
to have them at their fingertips

[naxels]

Here is what Ubuntu and Mint (and likely other Ubuntu based distro's) do:

they don't have XDG_BIN_PATH specified, however have this in .profile:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi

so if at any point either $HOME/bin and/or $HOME/.local/bin folder is created, it will auto add it to $PATH