I'd vote rather for a more generic phrasing.
`/usr/share` should be right for most users as this is usually the path used by 
distro packages. `/usr/local/share` is the default if you compile from source 
yourself and do not specify an installation prefix, this is not the way *most* 
users do install Geany, I guess.
Those users who install Geany from source and use a custom prefix, probably 
know what they are doing and so also can mentally replace the provided default 
path in the documentation/README with that they used for `./configure`.

In the documentation, we already have a few paragraphs about different 
config/resource file paths, see 
http://geany.org/manual/#configuration-file-paths. Maybe we could just refer to 
this part of the docs in the README?

Something like "$PREFIX" could rather increase confusion for users rather than 
solving it.

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