Sorry for the late reply. SourceForge decided to not send me notifications anymore, even though I have turned them on in the settings. :-/ There is actually a large number of applications that follow the XDG standard. The Arch Linux wiki has an exhaustive list (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory). I'm not proposing to remove the file in the home directory. This patch is merely an addition to the already present configuration options. The environment variable $XDG_DATA_HOME and...
As you can see from the diff, support for Windows could in principle be added, but I think the XDG base directories are a bit more meaningless in that case. It might still be worthwhile though.
Support XDG base directory for gnuplotrc
I was too hasty. This is actually a problem in PGF. However, I can't seem to close the issue, there is no button. Please close this for me.
ConTeXt: \AtBeginDocument is defined as {#1}
I was rendering plots for a paper where at 300 dpi I got artifacts, so I thought it would be a good idea to make this a user-adjustable variable.
Configurable resolution for cairolatex png backend
Still broken. $ xelatex --version XeTeX 3.14159265-2.6-0.999991 (TeX Live 2019)