From: Xaver =?unknown-8bit?q?H=C3=B6rl?= <hoe.dom@gmx.de>
To: iwd@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: make iwctl follow the XDG Base Directory Specification
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:04:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191210130420.snypbt3q3hgp5nak@blumerang> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B4E8E87E-8EE1-4487-AEFA-59EC699A3FE9@holtmann.org>
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Sure I will give it a try. Note though that I don't usually code in C
and have no experience contributing to this sort of stuff.
On Sat, Dec 07, 2019 at 04:47:39PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Currently iwctl writes its history to a file named .iwctl_history in the users home directory. The XDG Base Directory Specification tries to standardize these kind of things (see https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html for details). The bottom line would probably be to:
> > * check XDG_DATA_HOME (with fall back to .local/share/) and save the history in an iwd subfolder of that directory
> > * potentially read (and migrate?) .iwctl_history from the home directory for compatibility purposes
>
> I am fine with using $XDG_DATA_HOME/iwctl/history or $HOME/.local/share/iwctl/history as fallback if $XDG_DATA_HOME is not provided. Care to send a patch for this?
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-10 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-07 10:47 Suggestion: make iwctl follow the XDG Base Directory Specification hoe.dom
2019-12-07 15:47 ` Marcel Holtmann
2019-12-10 13:04 ` Xaver =?unknown-8bit?q?H=C3=B6rl?= [this message]
2019-12-10 13:06 ` [PATCH] client: Follow the xdg base directory specification Xaver =?unknown-8bit?q?H=C3=B6rl?=
2019-12-13 8:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
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