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. > > 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. > > 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 -- Regards Carsten Schoenert _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
