Karabiner-elements: Move Karabiner config file to ~/Library/Preferences

[ecausarano]

Hi,

it's a Mac app, no need to use ~/. conventions. The right place should be ~/Library/Preferences

[memelet]

Again, I personally like .karabiner.d. I guess it depends if you spend half your time in linux. But I would not object if it changed.

[asmeurer]

But it's not a plist any more (which is awesome by the way). Shouldn't Library/Preferences only be plist files?

[k0nserv]

Common tools that use ~/. conventions that I could find on my machine.

• oh-my-zsh
• git
• rbenv
• bundler
• vim
• bash
• npm
• cocoapods
• curl(netrc)
• docker
• jupyter notebooks
• mitmproxy

Also most dotfiles repos and similar setups work with ~/. conventions because most tools use it

[talha131]

You should check out this open pull request and @tekezo comment on it
https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/pull/114

[ecausarano]

I understand that many cross-platform applications follow the ~/.appname convention to store their own data, it's a BSD/Linux tradition. I thought that Karabiner was a Mac application so I don't see why it should go with that convention when the platform has a different one altogether.

Let's just stick to the native conventions, going against the grain of the platform may have unintended effects (iCloud based preferences sync, objections from the App Store, I don't know but why risk anything?)

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