| Summary: | Graphical layout state should use ${XDG_STATE_HOME}, not ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME} | ||
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| Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kxmlgui | Reporter: | Alex Elsayed <eternaleye> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Exherbo | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397602 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Not sure whether this would require changes to every Kxmlgui-using app, or if it could be done centrally. Keeping it open here just in case it's the latter. |
Version 0.8[1] of the XDG Base Directory Specification (released 2021-05-08) added a new directory, `${XDG_STATE_HOME}`. From the spec: > The $XDG_STATE_HOME contains state data that should persist between > (application) restarts, but that is not important or portable enough > to the user that it should be stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME. It may contain: > > - actions history (logs, history, recently used files, …) > - current state of the application that can be reused on a restart > (view, layout, open files, undo history, …) [1]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/0.8 This would significantly reduce churn of files in `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}`, with significant benefits for use-cases where the config is immutable, under version control, or otherwise benefits from not changing due to incidental (rather than intentional) user action.