You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.Dismiss alert
{{ message }}
Repository navigation
cli: Store history file in $XDG_STATE_HOME/$HOME/.local/state #79
We need a better location for the dispatch CLI history. Right now it's being stored in $HOME/.dispatch_cli_history.txt, but there is a tendency to avoid polluting homes with these kind of files.
Proposed solution
Use the XDG standard location for state files: $XDG_STATE_HOME, or it's defined default $HOME/.local/state if that variable is not set.
The $XDG_STATE_HOME contains state data that should persist between (application) restarts, but that is not important or portable enough to the user that it should be stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME. It may contain:
actions history (logs, history, recently used files, …)
current state of the application that can be reused on a restart (view, layout, open files, undo history, …)
Alternatively we can use the https://pypi.org/project/xdg-base-dirs/ which provides an easy access to the XDG env variables or defaults if the env variables are missing.
As for the file name, I would probably use the frequenz namespace too, and maybe even more namespacing too, maybe something like $XDG_STATE_HOME/frequenz/dispatch/cli/history (as we already need to make sure we create the directory anyway, as opposed to the current location ($HOME), $XDG_DATA_HOME might not exist.
Activity