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[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am 24.04.2018 um 12:54 schrieb Strontium:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> I have no personal problem with your patch, but from a standards point 
> of view I want to raise this.
> 
> As per: 
> https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> |"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME| defines the base directory relative to which user 
> specific configuration files should be stored. If |$XDG_CONFIG_HOME| is 
> either not set or empty, a default equal to |$HOME|/.config should be used."
> 
> The way I read your patch is that, XDG_CONFIG_HOME is being used to 
> specify the absolute path of the kicad configuration directory, not it's 
> relative base directory.
> 
> My concern is that if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set to someones "relative base 
> config directory", then that relative base config directory is going to 
> get filled with kicad config files.

I second this.

> Maybe its better to just define a new Kicad specific environment 
> variable for the purpose, "KICAD_CONFIG_HOME" for example.  Then there 
> is no conflict with any existing uses or standards, your patch as 
> written, would also then remove the redundant of processing XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
Also true, I already tried to say the same on 8 Apr 2018.

https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg35345.html

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Regards
Carsten Schoenert