Out of curiosity, have the path issues touched on in
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bund ... -322382955 made any headway?
I ask because without handling the mutable portion of the base path created by AppImages, there will be enduring problems with many of the configuration options. For example: I was wondering why (despite knowing I changed the setting) the TechDraw workbench was
still using an A4 template instead of a US Letter one. The reason why is that the base path changes every time the AppImage is started, but the "settings" are stored with a fully qualified path (as would be reported by
realpath).
- screenshot of tech draw settings with mutable appimage path
- Screenshot from 2021-07-27 09-09-32.png (128.5 KiB) Viewed 1422 times
Since this is stored in my "settings", I
could copy everything into the correct
xdg-user-dir (e.g.
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR or something within
XDG_CONFIG_HOME) but by doing that I'll then lose the benefit of updates to any of the templates. This hits at the meta-concern, without a stable path within the AppImage to plugins, macros, templates, etc
or a way of "synchronizing" assets with the AppImage I get the
feeling many issues like this will persist.
And yes: I know "feelings" aren't a product development strategy.