Please respect WAKATIME_HOME environment variable

[ivuorinen]

Currently setting WAKATIME_HOME env variable is being ignored, causing there to be two sets of configurations.

The best would be to support XDG Base Directory Specification if user has made it possible. Here's a nicer to read spec and examples of applications using it.

[alanhamlett]

We're working towards using XDG base directory with wakatime/wakatime-cli#558.

For now, I'll release a new version of jetbrains-wakatime today supporting $WAKATIME_HOME.

[alanhamlett]

Turns out we're already reading and using $WAKATIME_HOME if it's available to the jetbrains IDE process:

jetbrains-wakatime/src/com/wakatime/intellij/plugin/ConfigFile.java

Line 27 in 66d8588

if (System.getenv("WAKATIME_HOME") != null && !System.getenv("WAKATIME_HOME").trim().isEmpty()) {

jetbrains-wakatime/src/com/wakatime/intellij/plugin/Dependencies.java

Line 64 in 531769c

if (System.getenv("WAKATIME_HOME") != null && !System.getenv("WAKATIME_HOME").trim().isEmpty()) {

How are you setting that env var and making it available to the ide?

[ivuorinen]

All of zsh (my default), sh and bash echo the $WAKATIME_HOME to one I've set (~/.local/state/wakatime), and after deleting the files (~/.wakatime.cfg, ~/.wakatime-internal.cfg) and relaunching PHPStorm it asks for the API key and the files appear again to the root of my homedir.

Is there a special way I should make PHPStorm aware of the env settings?

[corruptmane]

Issue still persists. I also checked Run/Debug configurations to see system-wide env variables that my IDE (PyCharm) can see, and I see WAKATIME_HOME variable there, but PyCharm (or should I say WakaTime plugin) still asks me to enter API_KEY and automatically creates .wakatime.cfg file as well as .wakatime directory