On Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 10:21:21 AM UTC-4 al...@laerios.com wrote: > @paolomi thinks it should not be in ~/ so as to reduce clutter in the > user's home directory.
On 26.3.2023 07:25, Edward K. Ream wrote: > - The home directory is a natural place for this data. > - The home directory often contains subdirectories starting with > `.<app-name>'. > Both Linux and Windows hide such directories by default. The initial request seems to conflate 'reducing $HOME clutter' with 'adopting the XDG directory specification' in regards to where data, config, state files (and so on) are stored. I brought up the XDG directories because the original request by @paolomi specifically mentioned them. He suggested using the XDG-specified location of config files. Since the leo directory contains more kinds of files than config files, I suggested that the closest XDG-blessed location would be ~/.local/share. I don't think that's a very good fit to the XDG categories, but it seems the closest of any one. There are places in the code where purpose-specific files and folders are directly derived from g.app.homeLeoDir, so redesigning leo (and plugins) to redistribute files across different locations will be burdensome. 1) To prevent cluttering $HOME, would it not be enough to specify the location of homeLeoDir to somewhere else? Yes, that's basically what the issue is about. 2) Is there currently no way to customize the location of homeLeoDir? If not, perhaps it would be convenient to have the ability to customize it at startup, e.g. via command line parameter or environment variable. I don't think there is at present. I don't see much value in letting the location be user-customized, at least for Leo, because the user would have to keep track of the location, and there would need to be a default anyway in case the user didn't want to (or didn't know where to choose). The more things that just work all by themselves, the better. That has always been the case with the .leo directory. For reference, here is a listing with software which does not comply with the XDG Directory Specification, but allow customizing the file system paths they read/write in some way: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Partial -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/4ad1e96a-aedc-4788-939f-6bc7eec6b332n%40googlegroups.com.
