Hi Jonas, After looking into this over the past few days, I think the system-wide configuration approach may be larger than I initially expected.
I checked the current upstream code and open pull requests, but could not find an existing implementation for loading system-wide configuration. I would prefer the Debian package to stay reasonably close to upstream, so I am reluctant to carry this as a Debian-specific feature patch. We could implement it and submit it upstream, of course. Even if upstream accepted it, though, we would still need to carry the patch in Debian until a new Helix release includes it. There has not been a release since 25.07.1. I have also spent some time considering which questions debconf should ask. So far I have not found a set that I am satisfied with. Theme, keybindings and similar settings seem to be personal preferences rather than suitable system-wide choices. True-color support can also vary between terminals used on the same system. Adding debconf without a clear system-wide choice would introduce quite a bit of packaging and configuration-file handling for little immediate benefit. For this bug, I would therefore prefer to start with the simpler approach: ship an example configuration under /usr/share/doc/hx/examples/, which users can inspect and copy into their own configuration directory. We can still pursue XDG system-wide configuration separately, preferably upstream, if we identify a concrete use case for it later. What do you think? Best regards, Junyong Liang
