Am Montag, den 17.11.2008, 21:36 +0100 schrieb Harald Dunkel: > Package: vlc > Version: 0.9.6-1 > > I get an error message saying > > [00000001] main libvlc error: cannot open config file > (/home/harri/.config/vlc/vlcrc): Not a directory > > According to the FAQs (http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/index.html#id245329) > this is not supposed to happen, but actually I appreciate the idea to > avoid writing yet another application specific config directory to > my $HOME. If only all the other applications would do the same. > > I would suggest to support a documented environment variable > pointing to vlc's config directory, using $HOME/.config/vlc just > as the default.
Actually ~/.config is a standard directory for application specific configurations: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec Most new gnome/kde applications are using this but you can change the directory by using the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable (if the application implements the basedir-spec correctly).
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