Re: overriding ~/.gnome2 via env variable

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:12:38PM +1100, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> 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).
> 

andersca told me on IRC I could commit, I just haven't yet. Will do.

Havoc