Add support for state folder

[Ratakor]

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[Ratakor]

Any update on that getting merged?

[Techatrix]

What's the use case for the state folder? If it's for storing log files then renaming it to logs or similar would be reasonable. Otherwise the value $HOME/Library/Logs on macos for a state folder does not make sense.

[Ratakor]

What's the use case for the state folder? If it's for storing log files then renaming it to logs or similar would be reasonable. Otherwise the value $HOME/Library/Logs on macos for a state folder does not make sense.

As per the XDG Base Directory Specification:

The $XDG_STATE_HOME contains state data that should persist between (application) restarts, but that is not important or portable enough to the user that it should be stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME. It may contain:

• actions history (logs, history, recently used files, …)
• current state of the application that can be reused on a restart (view, layout, open files, undo history, …)

It's not only related to logs, as an example it's also used to store swap files by neovim. Should I change the name nonetheless?

[Techatrix]

I know that $XDG_STATE_HOME can be used for more than log files. This is not the issue. The issue is that requesting the state folder on macos will return $HOME/Library/Logs which is bad. What if the application wants to store swap files as you mentioned? Obviously that shouldn't be stored $HOME/Library/Logs.

If the folder name would be renamed to logs then the defaults on all platforms are reasonable and there is no longer an issue:

• On windows, storing log files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp is reasonable
• On macos, storing log files in $HOME/Library/Logs is reasonable
• On unix, storing log files in $XDG_STATE_HOME is reasonable

Otherwise, a better directory for macos needs to be found.