[SailfishDevel] Folder permissions

[Ove Kåven]

Den 13. mars 2014 19:22, skrev Iosif Hamlatzis:
> Thank you very much, I've just tested my game using the XDG basedir and
> it worked so I can continue my port of the game by modifying the rest of
> the code.
>
> Just one question, will the folders under .config/.cache/.local be
> removed if I uninstall the game? I've noticed that using the XDG basedir
> to read the environment variables I get something like:
> ..../..../<MyGameName> but no folder is created, so I programmatically
> created the <MyGameName> folder and placed my config (read/write) files.
>
> Since the GUI from the emulator doesn't uninstall the actual game I ssh
> into the emulator and called "zypper remove <MyGameName>" and it was
> uninstalled but the folders with all their contents I had created
> weren't erased. If this happens in the actual device then at some point
> there isn't going to be any space available on the device.

I think you shouldn't worry about it, just leave the files in $HOME 
alone. I believe one of the reasons Jolla Harbour is trying to enforce 
that Harbour apps only write app-specific stuff into 
$HOME/.config/appname (instead of anywhere it likes under $HOME) is so 
that it will be easy for the Jolla Store to remove that directory when 
uninstalling. I don't think it does it yet, but it appears to be what 
they want it to do eventually. In any case, the rpm itself shouldn't 
worry about it.