Price Retrieval Failure, Part 2

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 10, 2018, at 8:30 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op zaterdag 10 februari 2018 16:38:58 CET schreef John Ralls:
>>> On Feb 9, 2018, at 9:52 PM, D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sorry to be replying to my own message, but it also occurs to me that, in
>>> addition to Gnucash, Finance::Quote gets installed. Given that my
>>> troubles in this instance are intimately linked to F::Q, what steps might
>>> I take to ensure that IT gets removed as well?I
>>> 
>>> David
>>> 
>>> On February 10, 2018, at 10:49 AM, D via gnucash-user
>>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> John,
>>> 
>>> Thank you for clarifying. I'll note that Gnucash does put stuff into
>>> ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash as well, so there is at least one
>>> thing that gets installed.
>>> 
>>> I asked this question because I am still observing several
>>> "idiosyncrasies" on my system that no one else seems to be experiencing
>>> (such as this retrieval problem and my ongoing inability to get custom
>>> reports to load). Because I am experiencing such problems, it suggests a
>>> problem unique to my computer, and I was looking for a way to ensure that
>>> I was starting with a truly clean slate.
>>> 
>>> If I delete Gnucash.app and move (or delete) ~/Library/Application
>>> Support/Gnucash, will that create a completely empty Gnucash environment,
>>> or is there another system location that needs cleaning?I
>> David,
>> 
>> GnuCash writes stuff to ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash when it runs,
>> mostly to save state but also to save things like saved report
>> configurations. It also writes out your data files and their associated
>> logs to wherever you tell it to. Where do you draw the line for what’s
>> “installation”?
>> 
> Warning: more technical consideration ahead!
> 
> This is probably why XDG proposes a user_data_dir and a user_config_dir. The 
> former is for the application to store any user data (like window sizes and 
> positions, saved reports,...), the latter should be for files such as 
> config.user, log.conf and any custom reports written  by the user. Gnucash can 
> do whatever with the files in the former, but should never alter anything in 
> the latter.
> Unfortunately the XDG specification doesn't seem to map very well to the way 
> OS X handles things, where both types of data are stored in Library/
> Application Support/<application-name>
> And also on Windows gtk maps both locations on one directory.
> 
> However in all cases it surprises me gnucash would remove config.user or files 
> it didn't add there by itself from the Application Support directories. If 
> this is really the case, that would need changing.

If they really need to be separate, how about XDG_DATA_DIR=$HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/User Data and XDG_CONFIG_DIR=$HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config?

Regards,
John Ralls