Custom Zotero location, still creating ~/Zotero on every launch

[charlydelta]

I have configured the Zotero data dir to a custom location ~/.zotero_data, and I allowed it access to it via flatpak override. This works all fine, however, on every launch, the folder ~/Zotero gets created (empty) nonetheless... This is really annoying.

I don't know whether this is an issue of Zotero or the flatpak, but it is new. Didn't had an issue like that before upgrading today.

[felipehw]

@anarcat, this is related to issues #65 and #73 and commit #75.

What options do we have? I can think:

1. @charlydelta could just use Flatseal to remove the :create of filesystem accesses for ~/Zotero and ~/.zotero.
2. we could revert the restriction for Zotero Flatpak access the home dir.

Any other?

[charlydelta]

I don't know if it is related or it helps, but in my opinion the Zotero folder should be in the documents directory, and the ~/.zotero in an XDG conform directory like ~/.local/share or whatever...

I don't know anything about flatseal, but I can wait if you plan to fix it sometime. Will just install a cronjob to delete this directory or so.

[felipehw]

@charlydelta , Zotero doesn't follow the XDG spec. If we make adjustments to enforce that ... previous installations would have problems (i tested this here - #74 - and gave up).

Your problems could be solved by running: flatpak override --user --filesystem=home --filesystem=~/.zotero:rw --filesystem=~/Zotero:rw org.zotero.Zotero.

You also can do this using a GUI tool (Flatseal) and removing the configurations for ~/.zotero ~/Zotero and giving access to home.

But the question about the better setup for this Flatpak remains ...

[lschmelzeisen]

Just if anyone runs into the same problem, I needed to modify the posted command to get this to work

flatpak override --user --filesystem /path/where/you/want/Zotero --nofilesystem ~/Zotero org.zotero.Zotero