pychess default save location

[axet]

Default save location for game history set to $HOME. This is very not common for linux apps.

Can default location be changed to default config directory (my optinion this is the best option) '$HOME/.config/pychess' or My Documents $(xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS)?

pychess-1.0.3

[hartwork]

Hi! Git master is using ~/.config/pychess for a number of things. Where did you see use of plain ~/?

[axet]

I start fresh pychess-1.0.3 and it starts to pollute my home folder. As turns out in Edit / Preferencies / Save I found checked "Auto save finished game" set and pointing to $HOME.

This is not right way of working with user files in linux. Better to have this path changed to ~/.config/pychess by default.

EDIT: I changed it to the .config.pychess for for some reason path got reset and restored to the $HOME so I have to uncheck "Auto save finished games".

[axet]

Just test it with 'master' same. Fresh (after rm -rf .config/pychess) install result in "Auto save" pointing to the $HOME

[hartwork]

@axet I understand your message now. I see these files for me, you probably have the first two only:

# ( cd && ls -1 pychess* )
pychess.pgn
pychess.sqlite
pychess_test.pgn
pychess_test.sqlite

For anyone else coming here, the place we are talking about is this:

[gbtami]

I'm not really familiar with Linux file system standards, but you are right and it would be better to provide default to Documents (if it is the standard).

[axet]

No apps create files automatically in $HOME or Documents. Only when manually specified / saved. Default should go into ~/.config or ~/.cache (temporary files). Save or export game history should be offered into Documents.

[hartwork]

I disagree about some details here (..), but point taken that ${HOME} is not an ideal choice.