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Configuration folder is created under $HOME/SmartDashboard

Open modelmat opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

This clogs up the $HOME directory. Discussions with others in the FIRST Robotics Discord server suggested the ~/wpilib/<year>/tools/SmartDashboard directory.

This is set with https://github.com/wpilibsuite/SmartDashboard/blob/5dea736f714d1854b029578d02ee52ae3f1feebb/src/main/java/edu/wpi/first/smartdashboard/gui/DashboardPrefs.java#L21-L22 as well as https://github.com/wpilibsuite/SmartDashboard/blob/5dea736f714d1854b029578d02ee52ae3f1feebb/src/main/java/edu/wpi/first/smartdashboard/extensions/FileSniffer.java#L27

This can be fixed with the following code (for the former at least)

 public class DashboardPrefs implements PropertyHolder {
   private static final File USER_HOME = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"));
-  private static final File USER_SMARTDASHBOARD_HOME = new File(USER_HOME, "SmartDashboard");
+  private static final String WPILIB_YEAR = "2020";
+  private static final File USER_WPILIB_HOME = new File(USER_HOME, "wpilib/" + WPILIB_YEAR);
+  private static final File USER_SMARTDASHBOARD_HOME = new File(USER_WPILIB_HOME, "/tools/SmartDashboard");

However, SmartDashboard does not seem to store a version number anywhere. I am not experienced enough with Java to figure out how to include this and would ask someone to point me in the right direction or (much easier) just add it themselves.

modelmat avatar Jan 12 '20 01:01 modelmat