Re: initial message

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:03, Mark Finlay wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Great idea for a list. Hope to see lots of good ideas coming out of
> here. Gnome has great potential for deployment - but this really needs
> to be capitalised.

When I asked for the list I was told I could have it if and only if I
promised to abuse bugzilla and gnome developers about the
problems/solutions that we came up with one here.

I intend to honor that promise ;)


> Also there are the problems with absolute paths being stored in gconf,
> which is presently being discussed in gconf. The problems is that $HOME
> and $PREFIX as stored as absolute paths, so if one changes to different
> workstation with a different $HOME or $PREFIX (eg. BSD) this can cause
> problems.

Why are there ANY absolute paths used anymore?

-sv