Bug#476635: alienblaster: Permissions problem

[Johan Walles]

2008/5/2 Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at inutil.org>:
>  >  The settings file is in /usr/share/..., shouldn't it be in /etc?
>
>  It's not a typical configuration meant for editing by users, but
>  rather internal game data describing game mechanics, so I rather
>  placed it under /usr/share with the other data.

Looking at the settings file it seems to contain the keyboard controls
configuration.

As such it should be in my home directory.  Right now it's impossible
to change controls, exit the game and then have my controls preserved.
 And I need to do that because of how my keyboard is laid out:
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/us-intl.htm

So I was wrong, the config file needs to be in my home directory.

>  >  Even though opening the file fails, alienblaster still tries to write to it.
>  >
>  > After this the program doesn't properly terminate either, it just sits there eating CPU...
>
>  But only when running under strace, or does it hang for you as well
>  when running it normally?

strace doesn't matter, I have never seen Alienblaster terminate by
itself.  I need to kill it every time, with or without strace.

  Regards //Johan