Linux Teams directory structure, log file format and notification area icon

Question

Hi!

Thanks for releasing Teams for Linux, much appreciated!

Earlier today I posted some observations about the client on LinkedIn, and got suggested that I should post here, so here I am. Here's a copy-paste of what I wrote to LinkedIn:

• In Linux, ~/.config directory should contain only the configuration files like the name says, and any logs, caches, temporary files etc should go under ~/.local/share/ directory, or whatever directory XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable has been set to. Now, in just matter of hours, my Teams client has stored 137 MB worth of ... something... under my precious ~/.config/.
• The log file contains Windows newlines (\r\n) instead of the standard Unix (\n) newlines, which is not ideal, should I ever need to debug any issues.
• At least with a dark OS theme I have in my KDE I cannot see Teams icon in the notification area at all, there's just a grey placeholder.

Thank you :)

Janne

Answer 1

We are aware of the directory issue and it is next on our list of improvements.

It's 2023, 4 years later, still not done.

Thanks MS to care about the other OS.

Answer 2

My Microsoft Teams "config" folder is now 955MB.

Since here nobody gets any answer, I have asked Bing chat about this topic, and he lied. He said all those files are only config files.

This is ridiculous!