Hiya!

I've been going around different Rust apps that I use, and trying to fix this issue, and I noticed that this crate was reasonably official, and still broken.

The directories used right now are great for GUI apps (i.e., applications that live in /Applications), but is extremely unexpected for unix/CLI style applications. It seems really unfortunate to break people's expectations like this, especially because most people just end up using confy without thinking through the implications of a very odd configuration location.

We have a few examples of applications that used to do it the dirs way, because they just did "the default" thing, and then they've had to change to be correct:

• bat
• jj-vcs

And some examples of applications that have always used XDG on macOS (or which switched from a dotfile in the home directory to XDG when XDG became a standard), including both Rust applications and applications that are from outside the Rust ecosystem:

• git
• neovim
• gcloud
• iterm2 uses both
• kitty
• tmux
• wezterm
• dust
• fd

Additionally, it looks like cargo will be switching to using XDG directories Soon (tm) - thread here

I will also point out that I don't think any macOS developers have ever complained about programs putting their configuration files in ~/.config – but quite a few have complained about configuration being in ~/Library/Application Support. I made the change for jj, and I have had like five people message me thanking me for fixing it. It is not expected for CLI application to put their configuration in ~/Library, and I would appreciate if the semi-official Rust stuff supported the correct paths.

Of course, for GUI applications, it may be the case that you want your configuration in ~/Library/Application Support – that means you'll likely want to still be able to put configuration there, but the default should almost certainly be in ~/.config, since the application that's likely to use confy is likely to be a CLI app.