Re: storing full paths in configuration
- From: Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: storing full paths in configuration
- Date: 08 May 2003 12:22:05 -0400
On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 18:45, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> It's a bad idea to put the full path to the user's homedir in
> configuration files, because the user may use the same homedir
> with multiple machines (different nfs mountpoints etc)
(...)
> Also rumor has it that Evolution does this.
Yeah, Evolution is completely broken in that. It is planned to be fixed
some time after 1.4 (together with the ~/evolution directory name
issue).
-- Ettore
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