Better Compatibility: XDG: Installing Dorothy about dorothy HOT 10 CLOSED

So here's what I'm thinking.

setup-dorothy will prompt if you want to use xdg if dorothy has not yet been cloned out.

if dorothy has been cloned out, then we check if dorothy is located in the xdg location, if we are then we set DOROTHY_XDG to yes

If dorothy has been cloned out, and we are in setup-dorothy install mode, then we ask if they want to use xdg or not.

In setup-environment-commands we do the same source location check to autoset DOROTHY_XDG to the correct value, and if we are in DOROTHY_XDG mode then that script actively moves everything to the xdg locations and exports the xdg locations.

if we are not in xdg locations, then we check if the xdg location exists, check if the non xdg location exists, and if both exist then we show a prompt to remove one of the offenders, or remove and symlink one of the offenders.

i will also be rewritting setup-dorothy, to just dorothy, of which dorothy setup is one of its commands, along with dorothy edit

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basically how would one pass xdg to this:

bash -ilc "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bevry/dorothy/master/commands/setup-dorothy)"

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some links:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42313918/how-to-pass-variables-in-curl
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13341955/how-to-pass-a-variable-in-a-curl-command-in-shell-scripting
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47196581/linux-bash-curl-how-to-pass-variables-to-the-url

I haven't read them but these where some of the results when searching for pass variables to curl

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some other issues have also occured whilst installing on my M1. I am going to document it and post in another issue later.

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In this case, we don't actually want to pass an argument, but pre-set an environment variable:

This may work:

env DOROTHY_XDG=yes bash -ilc "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bevry/dorothy/master/commands/setup-dorothy)"

Or this:

bash -ilc "export DOROTHY_XDG=yes; $(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bevry/dorothy/master/commands/setup-dorothy)"

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Aah allright, i sidn't know what terminology to use.

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oooh what is dorothy edit suppose to do?

okay so I conclude you don't think the user should have an XDG bool in their environment.bash or similar, ie. XDG is only based on what dirs exist and their locations. and one specifies these locations in dorothy setup. I am just rephrasing to make sure I follow. Because I want to be super sure I am following you before I go off doing stupid shit haha.

1. dorothy setup prompts for XDG yes/no.
2. environmnet paths are being set based on this, ie. home/dorothy -> NO XDG || config/dorothy -> YES XDG.

we don't explicitly set environmnet variable DOROTHY_XDG. Are there downsides with this I am not aware of?

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I'm tackling the setup changes now, will leave the setup-environment-commands stuff for you

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Perfect

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Completed via #105 and #94

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