Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 13:53:45 JST Dr. Quadragon ❌

   Note to self:

   Flatpak stores all of its user configuration and otherwise application-specific files in ~/.var

   Which is actually great for a) not polluting ~/ and b) having all of the config in one place, finally.

   Although the naming could have been a little more obvious.

   • clacke likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Ambassador Tabliček (strizhechenko@lor.sh)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 13:53:43 JST Ambassador Tabliček

     in reply to

     @drq but why not:
     -/.config
     ~/.local/flatpak

     clacke likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 18:35:10 JST clacke

     in reply to

     • Ambassador Tabliček
     • AkhIL
     @akhil @strizhechenko Should be ~/.local/var/lib/flatpak in that case.
   • Embed this notice
     AkhIL (akhil@mastodon.ml)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 18:35:11 JST AkhIL

     in reply to

     • Ambassador Tabliček

     @strizhechenko AFAIK `local` means the same as non-local but custom and overrides non-local, like `/usr/local/bin` and `~/.local/bin` overrides `/usr/bin`, `var` means "variable" and is meant to be used as a place to store application/service volatile data. So `~/.var/flatpak/...` is more UNIX-like.

   • Embed this notice
     Ambassador Tabliček (strizhechenko@lor.sh)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 18:35:13 JST Ambassador Tabliček

     in reply to

     • AkhIL

     @akhil anyway ~/.local/flatpak/app/<app_id> would be more conventional I think

   • Embed this notice
     AkhIL (akhil@mastodon.ml)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 18:35:14 JST AkhIL

     in reply to

     • Ambassador Tabliček

     @strizhechenko
     Flatpak places everythong related to a single app into ~/.var/app/<app_id>
     So moving/removing all app data is simple as moving/removing single directory.
     @drq

   • Embed this notice
     iliazeus (iliazeus@lor.sh)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 06:36:45 JST iliazeus

     in reply to

     • clacke
     • Ambassador Tabliček
     • AkhIL

     @akhil the convention in question is the XDG Base Directory spec:

     https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

     It does not specify `~/.var`; instead, as I understood, `$XDG_DATA_HOME/flatpak` should be used; and if `$XDG_DATA_HOME` is not set, `~/.local/share` should be taken as its value.

     Sadly, almost nobody does that properly anyway. Even when people try to do it the right way, they most often just hard-code `~/.local/share/whatever`, without taking that env var into account.

     @strizhechenko @clacke @drq

     clacke likes this.