.gaim Revisited

[Richard Laager]

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:14 -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> If you don't like the behavior, you get to override it by exporting
> all the environment variables to $HOME.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work so well. If you do that then you end up
with a non-hidden "purple" directory in ~ for each app (e.g. "purple").
Unless, of course, applications use "$XDG_*/.app_name", in which case
you end up with stuff like ~/.config/.purple by default, which is
sub-optimal.

Richard

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