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Store cached data in XDG-defined paths, not ~/.clippy
A lot of linux users really dislike random apps cluttering ~/.foo directories; It's recommended to use XDG paths instead.
https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
Clippy would use $XDG_CACHE_HOME/clippy, defaulting to ~/.cache/clippy/
Didn't know about that, thanks :) I suppose ~/.cache/clippy would be a good default for macos too.
You don't know what's the convention on windows, by chance?
And maybe you'd like to try a PR? This would probably be a change to the default in ClippyPlugin
Windows would probably be %APPDATA_LOCAL% iirc but I don't use it myself so I'm not sure. If I have time I can pr in. Likely I'll make it check the old location and move the files to avoid extra bandwidth usage if I have time to write it
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 3:59 AM Adam Warski [email protected] wrote:
Didn't know about that, thanks :) I suppose ~/.cache/clippy would be a good default for macos too.
You don't know what's the convention on windows, by chance?
And maybe you'd like to try a PR? This would probably be a change to the default in ClippyPlugin
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If you would find the time, that would be great :)
Not sure if it's worth moving from the old location, as the gzipped file is now about 2KB
I'm not sure how best to handle windows. Right now it's using the user.home java property, but I'd need to switch to checking environment variables. I suppose I could check for the windows one along with the xdg ones, it just seems a little unfortunate that I'll have to effectively add code path branches vs what it's doing now
Well, if different OSes have different conventions for cache-like local storage, then adding conditional code wouldn't seem wrong in any way to me :) Maybe this could be separate object?