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Use xdg base directory specification #145

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moshiur-raj opened this issue Aug 26, 2022 · 5 comments · Fixed by #658
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Use xdg base directory specification #145

moshiur-raj opened this issue Aug 26, 2022 · 5 comments · Fixed by #658
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@moshiur-raj
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Currently qucs uses ~/.qucs . This contributes to littering the home directory. According to the xdg specification configs should be located at ~/.config , data should be located at ~/.local/share and cache should be located at ~/.cache .
Simply moving ~/.qucs to ~/.local/share/qucs would probably be the easier choice.
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ra3xdh commented Aug 27, 2022 •
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Yes, I am planning to move .qucs elsewhere but with the different purpose. The $HOME/.qucs directory doesn't hold config. The temporary files (netlist and log ) are located at $HOME/.qucs/spice4qucs (probably could be moved to .cache). The config file location is $HOME/.config/qucs/qucs_s.conf The $HOME/.qucs is used as the default location for projects and user library file. This is not good, because the hidden direcotory is not visible in file manger for default that may make difficult finding files.

I propose the following layout for these directories:

  • $HOME/.config/qucs/qucs_s.conf config file. Default Qt applications config location.
  • $HOME/.cache/qucs for holding temporary files like netlist and simulator data
  • $HOME/QucsWorkspace default location for projects and user libraries. Not a hidden directory because need to be visible from file manager by default.

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Qucs automatically creates .qucs in my home directory, even when I change the location in settings. Can you fix this too?

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ra3xdh commented Aug 27, 2022

Yes, Qucs-S now creates default directory layout on the first start now. It is related to fix of #86. The usage of QStandardPaths instead of hardcoded paths may help to resolve this issue https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstandardpaths.html

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wawuwo added a commit to wawuwo/qucs_s that referenced this issue Mar 23, 2024
@wawuwo
Fix unconditional workspace dir recreation
e3299f5 
With this commit creating of workspace dir is done *after* loading
of settings, so it takes in accounts dir name from settings. Before
that workspace dir with default name was created even if it was
overriden in settings.

See comment:
 ra3xdh#145 (comment)
wawuwo added a commit to wawuwo/qucs_s that referenced this issue Mar 23, 2024
@wawuwo
Fix unconditional workspace dir recreation
e43ce95 
With this commit creating of workspace dir is done *after* loading
of settings, so it takes in accounts dir name from settings. Before
that workspace dir with default name was created even if it was
overriden in settings.

See comment:
 ra3xdh#145 (comment)
wawuwo added a commit to wawuwo/qucs_s that referenced this issue Mar 23, 2024
@wawuwo
Fix unconditional workspace dir recreation
ac5f105 
With this commit creating of workspace dir is done *after* loading
of settings, so the workspace path from settings is taken into
account.

Previous behaviour was to create workspace dir before loading of
settings which led to path from settings to be ignored.

See comment:
 ra3xdh#145 (comment)
wawuwo added a commit to wawuwo/qucs_s that referenced this issue Mar 23, 2024
@wawuwo
Fix unconditional workspace dir recreation
e0bc98b 
With this commit creating of workspace dir is done *after* loading
of settings, so the workspace path from settings is taken into
account.

Previous behaviour was to create workspace dir before loading of
settings which led to path from settings to be ignored.

See comment:
 ra3xdh#145 (comment)
@wawuwo wawuwo mentioned this issue Mar 23, 2024
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Change Qucs-S workspace and tempfile paths #658
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ra3xdh commented Apr 7, 2024

The implementation of this provided by #658

wawuwo added a commit to wawuwo/qucs_s that referenced this issue Apr 7, 2024
@wawuwo
Fix unconditional workspace dir recreation
74564ea 
With this commit creating of workspace dir is done *after* loading
of settings, so the workspace path from settings is taken into
account.

Previous behaviour was to create workspace dir before loading of
settings which led to path from settings to be ignored.

See comment:
 ra3xdh#145 (comment)
This was referenced Apr 19, 2024
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qucs still creates ~/.qucs at startup @ra3xdh .

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