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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re:  Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system
From:       "Roberto H. Alsina" <ralsina () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-12-10 17:01:25
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On Tue, Dec 10 2002 at 11:55:29am -0500, amadorm@usm.edu.ec wrote:
> > >> Instead of providing a broken fix, let's fix what's really broken
> > >> 
> > > And yes it is 'broken' because it only works with KDE applications.
> > 
> > Than maybe we should chdir into it before launching apps via kdeinit... that
> > would get nearly all older apps to start in that dir.
> 
> 1. This doesn't fix all apps.  Some apps have $HOME hardcoded, no matter what 
> the cwd is.
> 
> 2. This is exactly the braindead fix that shouldn't happen.  That behavior is 
> there for a reason.  Some apps will silently fail because they will expect the 
> cwd to be $HOME.

What app does that? Got at least one example?

If you have: any app that does that is BROKEN.

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