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# XDG Base Directory Support
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* **Owners:**
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* Owen Williams <owilliams@mixxx.org>
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- **Owners:**
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- Owen Williams <owilliams@mixxx.org>
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* **Proposal Status:** `Draft`
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- **Proposal Status:** `Draft`
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* **Implementation Status:** `Not implemented`
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- **Implementation Status:** `Not implemented`
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* **Related Issues and PRs:**
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* [XDG Base Directory support](https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/8090)
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- **Related Issues and PRs:**
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- [XDG Base Directory support](https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/8090)
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* **Other docs or links:**
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* [XDG Base Directory Specification](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/)
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- **Other docs or links:**
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- [XDG Base Directory Specification](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/)
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> TL;DR: Migrate Mixxx from a single ~/.mixxx directory to XDG Base Directory
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> compliant paths on Linux, using platform-standard locations on macOS and
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### Pitfalls of the current solution
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* **Home directory clutter.** `~/.mixxx` is a visible dotfile in
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- **Home directory clutter.** `~/.mixxx` is a visible dotfile in
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the user's home directory. XDG-compliant apps use `~/.config/`,
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`~/.local/share/`, and similar directories, keeping the home
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* **No separation of concerns.** Config files (restorable from
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- **No separation of concerns.** Config files (restorable from
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backup), data files (user-created content like controller
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mappings), cache (regenerable waveform analysis), and state
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(logs, history) are all mixed together. This makes selective
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backup, cleanup, and synchronization harder.
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* **Cache cleanup tools cannot help.** System cache cleaners
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- **Cache cleanup tools cannot help.** System cache cleaners
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(BleachBit, systemd-tmpfiles) operate on `~/.cache/`. Mixxx's
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analysis cache in `~/.mixxx/` is invisible to them.
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* **Read-only home directory breaks Mixxx.** Users who set `$HOME`
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- **Read-only home directory breaks Mixxx.** Users who set `$HOME`
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to read-only (a practice for testing XDG compliance) cannot run
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Mixxx, since it writes directly to `~/.mixxx`.
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* **Inconsistent cross-platform behavior.** macOS and Windows
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- **Inconsistent cross-platform behavior.** macOS and Windows
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already use platform-standard locations via `QStandardPaths`.
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Only Linux and BSD use a hardcoded non-standard path.
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## Goals
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Goals and use cases for the solution as proposed in [How](#how):
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* Separate Mixxx files into the correct XDG categories (config, data,
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- Separate Mixxx files into the correct XDG categories (config, data,
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* Use platform-standard locations on macOS and Windows.
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* Preserve backward compatibility for existing installations that use
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- Use platform-standard locations on macOS and Windows.
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- Preserve backward compatibility for existing installations that use
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### Audience
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## Non-Goals
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* Automatic migration of existing `~/.mixxx` directories.
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* Changing the behavior of the `--settings-path` command-line flag.
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- Automatic migration of existing `~/.mixxx` directories.
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- Changing the behavior of the `--settings-path` command-line flag.
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## How
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