Config.yaml file location amiguity

[bendoin]

When opening Halloy for the first time, there is a screen guiding the user to create a new configuration file, which is very nice, but the problem is that in the config.template.yaml file is showing # Linux: $HOME/.config/halloy as the expected location when in fact the application is looking for the config.yaml file under ~/.var/app/org.squidowl.halloy/config/halloy/config.yaml.

Is this a Flatpak related problem? I did install it via Flatpak.

Has the project considered adhering to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME from the XDG Base Directory Specification and move away from a adding a new .var/ directory and instead using the directory $HOME/.config/halloyas stated in theconfig.template.yaml file?

[tarkah]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Flatpak :P I originally had it setup to respect the host XDG folders, but the flathub maintainers were giving me a very hard time about enabling these sandbox exceptions. So much of a hard time I eventually gave up and decided to respect their remapped XDG locations, which are as you show above.

[tarkah]

See the related commit that reverted this behavior:

dde014d

[tarkah]

I'm going to close this issue as it's working as expected. I have no desire to fight the flathub maintainers even tho I agree with you and feel we should respect host XDG paths. It's crazy to me they allow very restricted sandbox permissions of --filesystem=xdg-config/halloy:create in the build manifest, but have a lint which completely prevents me from being able to ship that to flathub.