Use ~/.local/share

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 13:20 +0000, Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> One thing about the Geary package is that it doesn't use the
> ~/.local/share/ as the regularly installed geary application would
> do. Instead it uses  ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Geary/data 
> And this is not really a big issue, but it feels confusing that your
> mail accounts are lost when installing and running Geary from a
> flatpak. 
> Is is possible to make it use ~/.local/share ? And what would the
> problem be with doing that? 

You can manually override $XDG_CACHE/CONFIG/DATA_HOME if you want, but
that means that you require write access to the homedirectory, and you
intermingle the files installed by the app with others, so they can
overwrite each other and you can't easily fully remove your app.