Re: overriding ~/.gnome2 via env variable

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:17:44PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> This is a feature that I'd added to gnome-libs 1.4 a while ago that's
> important to some customers. It lets you set an environment variable
> to move ~/.gnome2 ; the reason is that there can be issues when mixing 
> multiple GNOME versions with the same home directory, and often the
> easiest approach to that is "screw it" (though the official rules for
> config keys are that you should make this work even sharing the same
> config files and gconf database).
> 
> I should have put this in for 2.0.x, but anyway, we should add it now
> I think. (And then fix other code that's hardcoding "~/.gnome2")

Was there any feedback on this somewhere that I missed? It seems like a
good idea (he says now having hosed his GNOME setup last night in a way
this would have prevented).

Malcolm

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