Bug 419508

Summary: Kate uses no folder for saving application data on windows
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kconfig Reporter: bluefireolymp
Component: generalAssignee: Matthew Dawson <matthew>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: christoph, jpmbatrina01, kdelibs-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: AppData/Local folder which contains the kate files laying around there

Description bluefireolymp 2020-04-01 18:27:20 UTC
Created attachment 127170 [details]
AppData/Local folder which contains the kate files laying around there

While using Kate for Microsoft Windows 10 I found out that Kate stores its data without any folder in the AppData/Local folder. This is very unwanted behaviour of any application.
Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2020-12-26 22:36:42 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/146
Comment 2 Jan Paul Batrina 2021-09-14 10:09:14 UTC
(In reply to Bug Janitor Service from comment #1)
> A possibly relevant merge request was started @
> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/146

The wrong bug report was referenced in the MR. Moving back to "REPORTED"
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2022-01-09 17:08:50 UTC
Hmm, that is the default location uses by KConfig.
If that is unwanted on Windows, we might need to alter this globally and move the stuff in some kfX sub-folder.