[IVY-1502] Be a nice freedesktop citizen, move the ~/.ivy to the appropriate location

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: Core

Environment

linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: PerfectCarl
• Created: 02/Dec/14 13:34
• Updated: 08/May/24 12:38

Description

According to the XDG specification [1], there is a better way to store the user specific data of an application by dumping in new hidden folder in ~/.
More information about it can be found [2]

The specification defines places to store the data so that the user profile can be updated and moved properly while reducing some weird bugs.
Those places would be ~/.local/ivy or ~/.cache/ivy and other (depending on the data stored)

[1]: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
[2]: https://ploum.net/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders/