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Grayjay Desktop App

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bisby ◴[] No.42474981[source]
Launching the Linux release and noticed in the logs:

Directories:User Directory: /home/bisby/Grayjay

And there is a directory there now. I absolutely hate having stuff automatically create anything in my home directory like this. Ideally, this should be following XDG directory guidelines on linux: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

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koen31 ◴[] No.42475304[source]
Grayjay dev here. If you want it to use your user directory like other apps, just remove the file called "Portable". Keep in mind that it just uses your working directory to write files otherwise.
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godDLL ◴[] No.42475423[source]
That's a windows-ism, we don't like that kind of stuff. Not on any other OS we don't.
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freedomben ◴[] No.42475609{3}[source]
Parent is not wrong, but definitely could have some improved manners and tact.

As a linux user I wanted to make sure to say thank you for supporting and thinking about linux!

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Suppafly ◴[] No.42477625{4}[source]
>Parent is not wrong, but definitely could have some improved manners and tact.

I don't understand the weird tone policing that people are trying to do, there is literally nothing wrong with the parent's comment and pretending otherwise is weird.

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gtsop ◴[] No.42478160{5}[source]
I didn't see it as tone policing. From my point of view, I saw a very interesting application being shared and I hoped it would be good and prosperous so i can use it. When the first comment says "i hate that you do X" it is a bit discouraging towards a team of developers who have probably poured tons of free hours into making this. Words play with psychology, and it is my personal interest that these devs have good morale to make this app great, and that meand giving them feedback about obvious mistakes in a tone that does not hurt this morale. I hope that make sense
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Suppafly ◴[] No.42478609{6}[source]
"i hate that you do x" is perfectly normal, you're being weird.
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1. braiamp ◴[] No.42479591{7}[source]
And that's not even the words used, they said:

> I absolutely hate <stuff that does X> like this

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2. bisby ◴[] No.42481710[source]
That's not even the words I used either.

> I absolutely hate having stuff automatically create anything in my home directory like this.

Which is

> I absolutely hate <action> like this

Which is not

> I absolutely hate <thing that does action> like this

I quite like grayjay. I just dislike this one thing it does.