The bug obviously affects Maverick and Natty as well. It has been fixed in GIT and will be in 1.4.8:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35569 I hope this fix will be backported to 1.4.6 (on freedesktop.org and/or here), because it would be quite annoying to have to deal with buggy Ubuntus for years to come now. ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #35569 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35569 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/726471 Title: dbus de-prioritizes XDG_DATA_HOME -- can't customize user session -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs