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Bug 613643 - gnome-vfs hard codes .gnome2
gnome-vfs hard codes .gnome2
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Other
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks: 523057
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-22 21:39 UTC by Ray Strode [halfline]
Modified: 2018-08-17 13:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
look at environment variable (1.95 KB, patch)
2010-03-22 21:39 UTC, Ray Strode [halfline] 		none Details | Review

Description Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-03-22 21:39:33 UTC 
Created attachment 156813 [details] [review]
look at environment variable

libgnome supports an environment variable to relocate the .gnome2 directory.  gnome-vfs currently hardcodes .gnome2 in a few places.

Red Hat has a customer that would like to use this feature.
Comment 1 Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) 2010-03-24 18:54:28 UTC 
I think is better to use the freedesktop directory specification.

See http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
Comment 2 Sebastian 2010-09-01 08:56:07 UTC 
Linked to XDGConfigFolders's with "to do"

Since libgnome is to be deprecated, is this still necessary to fix?
Comment 3 André Klapper 2010-09-01 10:18:31 UTC 
This is unrelated to libgnome.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2018-08-17 13:53:37 UTC 
gnome-vfs got deprecated in 2008.

gnome-vfs is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes
in 2011. Its codebase has been archived:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-vfs/commits/master

gio (in glib) and gvfs are its successors. See https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch33.html and https://people.gnome.org/~gicmo/gio-migration-guide/ for porting info.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Feel free to open a task in GNOME Gitlab if the issue described in this task still applies to a recent + supported version of glib/gio/gvfs. Thanks!