Talk:Start up and Configuration

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Revision as of 05:17, 8 February 2021 by Suzanne.soy (talk | contribs) (Reply: FreeCAD should honour the $XDG_… variables, $HOME, .config, .cache, .local/share. Linked to discussion page about these.)

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  • This has to be documented [1]
 An (easier) alternative is to set the environment variable FREECAD_USER_DATA to point to the requested directory.
 The suggestion to set $HOME doesn't work. It does not even work under Linux because internally we don't check what's set to HOME but use some system specific API function instead.

Hmk (talk)

This is mentioned on [Download (Notes for GNU/Linux users)], I wasn't sure if it would be better to put it in Start up and Configuration or on the Download page which already has a section for a portable Windows version. I believe the behaviour should be changed to adhere to the established standards on Linux ($XDG_… variables and $HOME and the .config, .cache, .local/share folders), which could then be documented. I have drafted a list of points that would need changing at User:Suzanne.soy/Data_storage:_RFC, please feel free to add some comments there. Suzanne Soy (talk) 05:17, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
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