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Message #35590
Re: XDG_CONFIG_HOME on all platforms
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From:
Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date:
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:36:26 -0400
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I tested my latest patch and I haven't heard any issues so I went ahead
and pushed it. I did not test it with wx 3.1.1 to see if
XDG_CONFIG_HOME still worked properly.
Cheers,
Wayne
On 4/24/2018 8:54 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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