Please follow the freedesktop base dir specs

[goodmind]

See: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

Additional context

Additional requests

• Follow XDG Base Directory specification #1967
• Follow XDG Base Directory specification #1967 (comment)
• Use proper configuration files location on linux Arduino#7651
• Use proper configuration files location on linux Arduino#7651 (comment)
• Use proper configuration files location on linux Arduino#7651 (comment)
• Use proper configuration files location on linux Arduino#7651 (comment)
• Use proper configuration files location on linux Arduino#7651 (comment)
• Use proper configuration files location on linux Arduino#7651 (comment)
• Comply with XDG Arduino#9188
• Comply with XDG Arduino#9188 (comment)
• Arduino IDE doesn't correctly use the home folder on Linux Arduino#10486
• Follow XDG Base Directory specification on Linux Arduino#11641
• [Linux] Arduino config files should be saved in .config folder Arduino#11784
• Please follow the freedesktop base dir specs #1514 (comment)
• Please follow the freedesktop base dir specs #1514 (comment)
• Please follow the freedesktop base dir specs #1514 (comment)
• Please follow the freedesktop base dir specs #1514 (comment)
• Please follow the freedesktop base dir specs #1514 (comment)
• Please follow the freedesktop base dir specs #1514 (comment)
• Please follow the freedesktop base dir specs #1514 (comment)
• Please follow the freedesktop base dir specs #1514 (comment)
• Please follow the freedesktop base dir specs #1514 (comment)

[ffissore]

Can you briefly clarify what we are not doing and how we should do it?

[goodmind]

Hello,

Place user config directory of Arduino IDE (~/.arduino15) in folder that defined by $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config (~/.config/arduino15)

[ffissore]

Thank for you suggestion. However, I'm closing this as wontfix. Many apps store their conf in folders other from .config. We won't change an old feature such as using ~/.arduino15, even if not compliant with freedesktop standards

[matthijskooijman]

I guess migrating to ~/.config might be useful at some point (perhaps also putting toolchains etc. in ~/.local/lib or so), but it's tricky to get the upgrade path right I'm afraid.

[goodmind]

But also many apps use ~/.config

[Abdillah]

@matthijskooijman Is it that hard?

[A6GibKm]

You can always set ~/.arduino15 as a fallback. No need to deprecate it.

[matthijskooijman]

@cmaglie, @facchinm, I think it might be good to reconsider this issue, maybe at least reopen it to indicate it should be done at some point. Since this update can be done fairly gracefully, it could just be implemented, or we could consider waiting for 1.9 or even 2.0 (alternatively, we could implement this now, and then in 2.0 do an active migration moving files out of ~/.arduino15).

Looks like there is a patch already (haven't looked at the patch yet). The upgrade path seems to be to use the old directory if it exists, or start using the new standards-compliant paths otherwise.

One migration issue that should also be fixed is that of documentation. The are probably docs that point to ~/.arduino15, which need to be updated. Of course a lot of these are on webpages outside of our control, but I guess they need to update themselves once this is released.

Maybe this is also a good moment to drop the "15" suffix from the config dir (e.g. use ~/.config/arduino)? And probably also fix the related arduino/arduino-cli#2115.

[facchinm]

@mastrolinux @cmaglie can we discuss a bit @matthijskooijman 's proposal ?

[Thovthe]

Doing this makes sense. I would say lets use @Perlovka's patch but I'm not sure about leaving the file as arduino15, though, I must admit not knowing the exact reason it was called that in the first place.

[Avamander]

This decision should be revisited because it was made five years ago and now is even more outdated than it was back then.

[eliaskanelis]

Thank for you suggestion. However, I'm closing this as wontfix. Many apps store their conf in folders other from .config. We won't change an old feature such as using ~/.arduino15, even if not compliant with freedesktop standards

You can always leave the old path as backward compatible. It is really not that hard to satisfy XDG standards while keeping backwards compatibility.