Bug report #11926
Change the configuration directory location to the new standard
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | GUI | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | 2.6.0 | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Easy fix?: | No | |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | end of life |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 20135 |
Description
Currently QGIS stores its configuration and history settings in $HOME/.qgis2 directory.
This is an obsolete standard that pollutes the home directory of the user with hundred of files.
The new XDG standard is to put such files in a common place ~/.config and ~/.local that will mean tha QGIS sohould put its configuration files in ~/.config/qgis2 and other things in ~/.local/qgis2 as it is documented in the documented below.
[[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg_user_directories]]
More and more applications do that. Please help the Linux community to have a clean home directory. Thanks.
History
#1
Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 7 years ago
- Easy fix? set to No
- Regression? set to No
#2
Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 5 years ago
- Resolution set to end of life
- Status changed from Open to Closed
End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR
Source:
http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/