Re: [rox-devel] ROX-Session and CHOICESPATH

[Tony H. <h...@re...>]

In <gem...@ke...>, Stephen Watson wrote:

> Tony Houghton <h...@re...> wrote:
> 
> > I noticed that ROX-Session is still setting CHOICESPATH to
> > ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
> > 
> > If it's still going to set it, shouldn't it now be:
> > 
> >
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rox.sourceforge.net:~/Choices:$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/rox.sourceforge.net:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
> > 
> > (where /rox.sourceforge.net is appended to each element of
> > $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS if it has multiple elements)?
> 
> No because CHOICESPATH is set for all apps, not just those hosted at
> rox.sourceforge.net.  If you set CHOICESPATH as above then run an old
> version of Clock it will store its config in
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rox.sourceforge.net/Clock whereas a newer version will use
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kerofin.demon.co.uk/Clock.

Anything that uses CHOICESPATH is associated with Rox though isn't it? I
don't see that an old version of Clock using the wrong location within
.config is any worse than it using a location (Choices) that we're
trying to get rid of.

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