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Detailed steps on how to reproduce the bug

userApplicationDataDirectory always resolve to the fallback.

getSpecialLocation(userApplicationDataDirectory) will always resolve to ~/.config.

What is the expected behaviour?

That is uses the env XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and if it is null or empty it uses the fallback.

From the spec: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.

The gist of the problem is that File::getSpecialLocation() delegate the resolution to resolveXDGFolder(), which is incorrect. Instead it should do:

        case userApplicationDataDirectory:
	{
            // XDG spec https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html     
            const char* configDir = getenv ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME");                                                     
            if (configDir && *configDir)
                return File (CharPointer_UTF8 (configDir));

            return File (CharPointer_UTF8 ("~/.config"));
        }

Operating systems

Linux

What versions of the operating systems?

Any.

Architectures

x86_64

Stacktrace

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Plug-in formats (if applicable)

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Plug-in host applications (DAWs) (if applicable)

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Testing on the develop branch

The bug is present on the develop branch

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