[Feature Request]: Don't create ~/.pki directory, move it to $XDG_DATA_HOME/pki

[Samueru-sama]

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Problem Description

NSS already supports XDG Base Directory Specification however Ferdium instead decides to create the directory ~/.pki, likely because the path is hardcoded.

Proposed Solution

Ferdium should create the directory in $XDG_DATA_HOME

Alternatives Considered

Even full support is not needed, Ferdium can check for $XDG_DATA_HOME/pki first before defaulting to ~/.pki.

Additional Information

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[vraravam]

I went through the code - and nowhere do we hardcode .pki nor just pki. Not sure if this has to be logged against a dependency? Could you please give more details like OS version, which version of Ferdium, where/how does this issue occur, etc?

[Samueru-sama]

I went through the code - and nowhere do we hardcode .pki nor just pki. Not sure if this has to be logged against a dependency? Could you please give more details like OS version, which version of Ferdium, where/how does this issue occur, etc?

Hi, I opened a similar issue for freetube and was told that there is no way to fix it because it is an issue with electron.

Either way this happens on all ferdium versions on linux.

[vraravam]

Hi, I opened a similar issue for freetube and was told that there is no way to fix it because it is an issue with electron.

Either way this happens on all ferdium versions on linux.

In that case, its pretty evident that this is an upstream issue and we wouldn't be able to fix it in the ferdium codebase.