Re: Possible typo in gnome2-system-admin-guide

[Simos <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 16:50 +0100, Simos wrote:
>> Hi,
>> During the translation of gnome2-system-admin-guide, a member of the Greek team
>> noticed that in
>>
>>     <para>Desktop entry files must reside in the
>>     <filename>$XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications</filename> directory and must have a
>>     <filename>.desktop</filename> file extension. If
>>     <envar>$XDG_DATA_DIRS</envar><footnote>
>>         <para>$XDG_DATA_DIRS is the environment variable defined in the <ulink
>>         url="http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec";>XDG base
>>         directory specification</ulink>.</para>
>>       </footnote> is not set, then the default path is
>>     <filename>/usr/share</filename> is used. This also implies that user
>>     specific desktop entries may be located at
>>     <filename>$XDG_DATA_HOME/applications</filename> which is
>>     searched first. If <envar>$XDG_DATA_HOME</envar> is not set, then the
>>     default path <filename>~/.local/share</filename> is used. Desktop entries
>>     are collected from all directories in the <envar>$XDG_DATA_DIRS</envar>
>>     environment variable. Directories which appear first in
>>     <envar>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</envar> are given precedence when there are
>>     several <filename>.desktop</filename> files with the same name.</para>
>>
>> the '$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS' near the end of the paragraph should be
>> '$XDG_DATA_DIRS instead.
>> It appears this is a copy-paste error while writing the documentation.
>> Could you please verify? If so, I can bugzilla this.
>
> Yeah, the definitely looks wrong.  Can you file
> a bug please?

Done!

Bug report at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577327

Simos