Using ~/.config rather than ~/.var/APP_ID/config

[Michael Gratton]

Hi all,

I've just received a feature request for Geary to automatically migrate 
config and data from the standard XDG desktop locations (i.e. typically 
~/.config and ~/.local/share) when first-running the app under 
Flatpak[0]. I'm sympathetic to this request, since it's weird that 
existing config and data doesn't carry across just because one installs 
an app via Flatpak rather than using traditional sources.

To implement this, I'd obviously have to open a RW hole in the sandbox 
for both ~/.config/geary and ~/.local/share/geary, but once I've done 
that there's not much point copying the data across - it may as well 
just use it where it is.

So I'm wondering a) if there's any reason why this would be a bad idea, 
and b) why Flatpak doesn't just do this by default?

Cheers!
//Mike

[0] - <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/326>

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