MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui

~/.config/youtube-dlg is abused

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#260 opened on Jan 9, 2018

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Description

~/.config/youtube-dlg should just contain configuration files and not logs (which should go to $XDG_DATA_HOME/youtube-dlg/ ) nor youtube-dl binary (which should go to $XDG_CACHE_HOME).

Please also consider using appdirs instead of hardcoding ~/.config/

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Implement XDG base directory specification using the `appdirs` library to separate configuration, data, and cache directories. Move logs to $XDG DATA HOME/youtube dlg/ and youtube dl binary to $XDG CACHE HOME.
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