Re: Opening pgn files in xboard

>if we add a .xboard directory, we should make this configurable, so that
>different distributions can add their preferred directory for this... on
>my computer many programs seem to use ~/.config/<progname> for example.

Indeed, although this might be cumbersome, as it would require modification
of the .desktop files before offeringthem to the systemwith xdg-....
It is also awkward that the user settings are not stored in that same 
directory,
but in ~/.xboardrc . Do distributions define a variable for this, similar 
to $DATADIR,
which we could draw on in the cofigure/make process?

If necessary we could add a new option -userDirectory, for which we set the 
default
through a configure-supplied macro, and a new option similar to -ini or 
-at/-opt/@
which looks in the userDir rather than in the current directory for the 
settings file,
and does not complain when it is not there (-userIni?).