Bug#506026: ~/.config is _not_ a directory

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Montag, den 17.11.2008, 21:36 +0100 schrieb Harald Dunkel:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 0.9.6-1
> 
> I get an error message saying
> 
> [00000001] main libvlc error: cannot open config file (/home/harri/.config/vlc/vlcrc): Not a directory
> 
> According to the FAQs (http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/index.html#id245329)
> this is not supposed to happen, but actually I appreciate the idea to
> avoid writing yet another application specific config directory to
> my $HOME. If only all the other applications would do the same.
> 
> I would suggest to support a documented environment variable
> pointing to vlc's config directory, using $HOME/.config/vlc just
> as the default.

Actually ~/.config is a standard directory for application specific
configurations:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec

Most new gnome/kde applications are using this but you can change the
directory by using the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable (if the
application implements the basedir-spec correctly).
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