Re: Location of user configuration (Linux)

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Bruno Friedmann <bruno(at)ioda-net(dot)ch>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Location of user configuration (Linux)
Date: 2017-01-16 17:13:31
Message-ID: CA+OCxoy2ZJiP4iDTqJ+1_P+U3+hpFPTo2XAGASYwJ3sF8bfE+w@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Bruno Friedmann <bruno(at)ioda-net(dot)ch> wrote:
> With the new layout of freedesktop can we imagine to placed
> the runtime configuration and related to a more sensible directory than
> ~/.pgadmin

Using a per-app dot directory (or file) in the users home directory
has been an accepted location for user config/settings etc. for, what,
30+ years? I don't see a reason to write code to migrate from that -
I'd far rather spend time working on real issues.

> The configuration is okay ~/.config/pgadmin
> Now the db, sessions, storage should be moved to
> ~/.local/share/pgadmin
>
> That's where QTWebEngine place already its data.
> .local/share/pgadmin/pgadmin4/QtWebEngine/Default/
>
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