Re: Settings directory error spam

[Felix Riemann <friemann gnome org>]

Am Sonntag, den 09.05.2010, 08:10 +0300 schrieb Jerome Leclanche:
> Hi list
> 
Hey Jerome,

> I use eog on KDE (Okular and Gwenview are both awful), and so I don't
> have a ~/.gnome2 dir most of the time. I thought it might be of use to
> report this extremely minor issue with that case, resulting in this
> spam:
> (eog:26820): EOG-WARNING **: Failed to create directory
> /home/adys/.gnome2/eog: No such file or directory
> (eog:26820): EOG-WARNING **: EOG could not save some of your
> preferences in its settings directory due to a file with the same name
> (/home/adys/.gnome2/eog) blocking its creation. Please remove that
> file, or move it away.
> (eog:26820): EOG-WARNING **: Failed to create directory
> /home/adys/.gnome2/eog: No such file or directory
> 
> Creating the .gnome2 dir fixes it.

The plan is to have eog follow the XDG Path Specification in the
2.32/3.0 series. That will put the configuration files below ~/.config.

But still the warnings aren't cool. These come because we don't make
sure that ~/.gnome2 is present before creating eog's own subdirectory in
it. I'll look into this.

Felix

P.S.: Don't hesitate to report such things to our bugzilla directly.