xfce4.2 for root

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Fri Oct 15 07:39:11 CEST 2004


Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
>> Benedikt, could we perhaps change libxfce4util to always add our own 
>> data dir,
>> independent of XDG_DATA_DIRS? I think the spec allows for that, 
>> doesn't it?
> 
> 
> Not sure, if this is a good idea. I'd assume that given that I have 
> absolute control over what's and where's going to be looked up by 
> setting the XDG variables. If we automatically add to the variables, its 
> no longer absolute control and users might be confused, because they 
> wouldn't expect that we `extend' the spec.
> 

Hmm, but not being able to start is pretty bad as well. If distros start 
changing these variables automatically, we may see this problem a lot 
more often.

If we put it at the end of the lookup list, it will only be used as 
fallback when no other file is found. That sounds to me like a pretty 
good compromise.

	Jasper



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