Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se writes:
Also to note is that non-GNOME (and even non-desktop) GLib-based
applications were seen in the wild. Consider, e. g., the OpenBSD
version of the Netcat command-line networking diagnostic tool (as of
the version currently in Debian stable [4].)
Tristan Van Berkom t...@gnome.org writes:
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So... maybe we dont want to change the behavior of an api that dates
10 years back, but we might want to at least correct
g_get_user_config/data_dir() at this point ?
Given that even back then it was noted that “login sets $HOME
Stef Walter st...@gnome.org writes:
On 09/27/2012 04:48 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
$ HOME=/net/home/jrh emacs
Moreover, GNU Bash started under such a Emacs instance will also use
/net/home/jrh/.bashrc (instead of /home/jrh/.bashrc), and so will
GNU Wget, or Lynx, and a sheer variety
Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org writes:
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 12:42 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Gets the current user's home directory as defined in the password
database.
Note that in contrast to traditional UNIX tools, this function
prefers passwd entries over the HOME environment
[This issue is currently being discussed in debian-devel@ [0],
and it was suggested to bring it to gtk-devel-list@ as well.]
Abstract
It's suggested that g_get_home_dir () be changed to follow the
usual Unix convention of using ${HOME} as the user's home
