[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55822] GUI settings files do not honor XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55822>

                 Summary: GUI settings files do not honor XDG_CONFIG_HOME
environment variable
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Sun 03 Mar 2019 02:08:48 PM PST
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 1 - Wish
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

The GUI reads and writes its configuration files to files under
~/.config/octave, with no way to override that location.

According to the XDG spec, the environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME should be
used by all applications as the base directory to write configuration files
under, with ~/.config as a fallback default.

I'm marking this as GNU/Linux only, even though it also applies to macOS or
any Unix system.

I think there are a whole different set of default user configuration
directories and possibly environment variable overrides for those locations,
so this is not applicable to Windows.




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