Allow (opt-in?) writing to XDG_STATE_DIR instead of requiring `cwd` to be writable - Githubissues

X2CommunityCore / xcom2-launcher

The Alternative Mod Launcher (AML) is a replacement for the default game launchers from XCOM 2 and XCOM Chimera Squad.

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Allow (opt-in?) writing to XDG_STATE_DIR instead of requiring `cwd` to be writable #364

Open x10an14 opened 5 months ago

x10an14 commented 5 months ago

Description

Currently, the installation says that the program requires the folder it resides in to be writable by the user running the program.

Suggest a solution

Leverage the XDG/Freedesktop standard (https://github.com/xdg-net/Xdg.Directories maybe?) to write to $XDG_STATE_DIR/<program name "xcom2-aml"?>/, which always should be writeable for the executing user.

Would make things easier for those of us who like to install programs into immutable filesystems for a plethora reasons (including security ones).