[Pidgin] #6555: PURPLEHOME environment variable ignored

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#6555: PURPLEHOME environment variable ignored
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Reporter:  Mephator  |       Owner:  datallah                            
    Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                                 
Priority:  minor     |   Component:  winpidgin (gtk)                     
 Version:  2.4.3     |    Keywords:  purplehome environment variable logs
 Pending:  0         |  
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 I've read through the various documentation and old tickets to see what I
 should be doing in order to customize where my logs are stored. (Why this
 isn't a general program preference is a completely different issue)

 I set my environment variable, in XP, for %PURPLEHOME% to
 D:\media\text\logs\pidgin. Using the echo command verifies this. However,
 all my logs are still sent to the %appdata% location.

 BUT!!

 If I use pidgin -d to determine exactly what's going on, then it obeys the
 environment variable and my logs go to the desired location. Start pidgin
 without the -d option and it once again goes back to %appdata%.

 What gives?

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6555>
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