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[Christian Dywan <christian.dywan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08.08.2014 06:15, Zoltán Balogh wrote:
>
> On 08/08/2014 05:00 AM, Alex Chiang wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Christian Dywan
>> <christian.dywan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I'm a very practical person. Just try this (example attached):
>>>
>>> env APP_ID=uitk XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/tmp qmlscene settings.qml
>>>
>>> Et voilá the settings go where you expect them.
>> The line above creates:
>>
>> /tmp/qt-project.org/uitk.conf
>>
>>> For the same reason there's no issue with apparmor.
>> I would agree that on the phone, u-a-l sets XDG_CONFIG_HOME to
>> ~/.config/
>>
>> However, the path is still ~/.config/qt-project.org/$APP_ID.conf
>>
>> This *will* result in AppArmor denial since an app cannot access
>> ~/.config/qt-project.org/*
>>
>> So how are apps supposed to change that path to be something like
>> "~/.config/$APP_ID/$APP_ID.conf" ? A working example in QML would be
>> great.
>
>
> For me it seems that the settings are stored under the
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOM/[Application's organization Domain]/ and since the
> application in fact is the qmlscene it goes to the qt-project.org.
>
> The question is if there is (or should be) a QML API for
> QCoreApplication::setOrganizationDomain() to work this problem around.
>
> The best is to talk to the upstream devs and and ask them about the
> path scheme for settings.
>
> Zoltan
>
Watch this one https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1354321

Branch coming up soon once I got a unit test for it written.

ciao,
    Christian

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