-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Sa den 1. Dez 2007 um 23:09 schrieb Ari Pollak: > Most standalone GTK apps do not look at $HOME, only g_get_home_dir(). > GIMP, Pidgin, LogJam, Brightside, and Streamtuner all do not use $HOME.
Beside Gimp and Streamtuner I didn't know of the existence of the other software. However, there is at least that many applications using gtk and using $HOME. > Because of this, and because you can override gimp's home directory with > GIMP2_DIRECTORY, I'm only considering this a minor documentation bug. Well, yes and no. If it is this buggy programmed than it should at least be documented the right way. But the problem is much deeper as this is (on unix) a completely wrong behaviour. On many systems you might have (temporarily) no home directory. Setting $HOME to a local directory let you still work; not so with Gimp. (Yes, I know GIMP2_DIRECTORY but this is not what is expected.) That you use getent is just a problem of a few pices of software. Unfortunately also for Gimp. Many, many other software use correctly $HOME and work well. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBR1HjJ5+OKpjRpO3lAQJkbgf9Gn9lTHWVIciQELrZANA63bUya1G6lHWw 3YOSgih+0aJ23Ddg5tsNDtrlIgc4vVI3H6NNYEIbakDhIuLOSaXP+jzrp6S/afjO LC55dc20gw8q/a2e8CkW1+pZNS6GHvsB2F9YmaEpzchXEXbbU+BDYsRRTYEXS781 CQLwG+mtYXhohFjE3VBXM//EtKYjlMwLT/PbcWDBnPYvISS+CFpanxygYdMje5a+ SpsI8znhknkGBv08mHHQwyqV2zXvQe3q/iC7GmeEjFuMEAeCDMtuIw0wjIandUzR 2DfZf2lLlyaORkUjerg7UDANLxzPhpV9Mx3iy6iIFC3SeQFww3lfyA== =uHnP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
