[Epiphany] storing full paths in configuration (fwd)

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

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From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
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Subject: storing full paths in configuration
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Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:45:06 -0400 

Hi, 

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) 

A quick grep of gconftool-2 -R / reveals: 

 /apps/gthumb/general:
   startup_location =
   catalog:///home/devel/hp/.gnome2/gthumb/collections/Command Line.gqv 

 /apps/gnomechat/identity:
   photo = /home/devel/hp/.gnome/photo 

 /apps/epiphany/directories:
   downloading = /home/devel/hp 

 /apps/panel/profiles/default/objects/0t1042494582ut679501u2379p8004r1608175 
216k3221218252:
   launcher_location = 
file:///home/devel/hp/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/hammer-001ea70be8.d 
esktop 

Also rumor has it that Evolution does this. 

It would be better to store ~ and then expand it on demand. 

This is the kind of thing that should really be in some kind of test
plan for each GNOME release. 

Havoc
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