Explore plugins modal should show install path as value of NYLAS_HOME

[danielbayley]

…rather than [what I presume is hard-coded] ~/.nylas.

[mbilker]

Thanks for the report @danielbayley. Are you installing an external plugin or developing a plugin? The Built-In plugins are hard-coded into the Nylas application. ~/.nylas is hardcoded, but that is being debated at #674.

[danielbayley]

Well actually at the moment I have NYLAS_HOME set to ~/Library/Application Support/Nylas N1 (where it should be on OS X…) but this seemed to cause a lot of bugs with plugins, especially N1-Markdown-Composer; so I presume ~/.nylas is hardcoded in a bunch of places (should always be a variable…)

As a temporary fix I just made a symbolic link at ~/.nylas to the Application Support folder which made a lot of problems go away…

[mbilker]

It is hardcoded at https://github.com/nylas/N1/blob/e0976fde2c7c59570641f98bd6ec93ea91c135b9/src/browser/nylas-protocol-handler.coffee#L20

[mbilker]

That protocol handler handles all of the nylas:// links and any installed (non-bundled into app.asar) package has that hardcoded path. It should really use NylasEnv.getConfigDirPath() to get its path.

[bengotow]

This would definitely be a good project to dig in to. ~/.nylas definitely should be a variable everywhere.