[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55822] GUI settings files do not honor XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #55822 (project octave):

Torsten - I looked into Qt and it does support XDG_CONFIG_HOME in a couple
places, if that makes things easier or more portable.

The QStandardPaths class honors it for
ConfigLocation/GenericConfigLocation/AppConfigLocation. So for example
'QStandardPaths::writeableLocation (QStandardPaths::GenericConfigLocation)'
returns XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config on GNU and Unixy systems, but it returns
something else on macOS and Windows systems.

The QSettings class also honors it when building the implied paths when you
use the alternative org/app constructor you mentioned earlier.

I think they both also support XDG_CONFIG_DIRS for reading settings from
multiple system/user locations, as mentioned by Carnë, but that's a separate
goal.

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