Re: WISH for next version

[Derek Fountain <fountai hursley ibm com>]

> It will be great if under $HOME/.gnome* no file contains
> absolute pathname to the $HOME.
> I mean that it a user has a HOME=/home/the_user we can't find
> /home/the_user/.gnome.. n any file under $HOME/.gnome*
> 
> Why: to make easy management of skeletons by sysadm
> How:
> a) every path begining by the relative .gnome*/.. is supposed
> to be $HOME/.gnome*/...
> b) manage the string $HOME/ in these file
> Thank you
> JRC

Boy, would I second that. I wanted to duplicate my GNOME
environment for my girlfriend. I found it impossible. All
the searches, replaces and clever Perl scripts I could get
together couldn't duplicate the setup so it worked properly.
I ended up doing it all by hand twice.