diff -ru qweechat.bu/qweechat/config.py qweechat/qweechat/config.py
--- qweechat.bu/qweechat/config.py	2014-07-31 11:05:11.111575651 +0200
+++ qweechat/qweechat/config.py	2014-07-31 11:08:33.604345972 +0200
@@ -23,8 +23,14 @@
 import ConfigParser
 import os
 
-CONFIG_DIR = '%s/.qweechat' % os.getenv('HOME')
-CONFIG_FILENAME = '%s/qweechat.conf' % CONFIG_DIR
+from xdg import BaseDirectory
+
+CONFIG_DIR = os.path.join(BaseDirectory.xdg_config_home, "qweechat")
+
+if not os.path.isdir(CONFIG_DIR):
+    os.mkdir(CONFIG_DIR)
+
+CONFIG_FILENAME = os.path.join(CONFIG_DIR, "qweechat.conf")
 
 CONFIG_DEFAULT_RELAY_LINES = 50