Draft: Resolve "Use XDG Base Directory specification"
What does this MR do?
Place nitrile's data files in a folder that is consistent with the XDG base directory specification.
- On linux this was
~/.nitrile
and this becomes~/.local/share/nitrile
. On windows a sane fallback is used (LocalApplicationData
). - On windows this was
%APPDATA%/Nitrile
and this becomes _LocalApplicationData
_/Nitrile
.LocalApplicationData
is a Known Folder. By default this equals to%LOCALAPPDATA%
which again defaults toC:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local
. - On mac this defaults to
~/Library/Application Support
Does this require a changelog entry?
Changes to public APIs
This requires a fresh installation of nitrile.
If necessary, we can create a fallback that will check whether a ~/.nitrile
exists if there is no Nitrile directory in the new location (because an older version was in use).
Author's checklist (required)
See https://gitlab.com/clean-nc/contributing#isocyanoclean-contributing-guidelines for the rationale behind these items:
-
The commit history does not contain merges (use git rebase -i main
if it does) -
Intermediate commits compile (use git rebase -i main
if not) -
Newly added code has a style consistent with the rest of the repository -
Newly added code is documented -
If bugs have been solved, tests have been added -
A changelog entry has been added if required
Related issues
Closes #18 (closed)
Edited by Mart Lubbers