Re: defaults oddness

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 04:52 PM, Pete French wrote:

> I just restarted gdnc and got a message about "moving defaults from
> old location to new location". Which I didnt save sadly - but the new
> location was comething like ~pfrench/GNUstep.
>
> Al well and good - except that what appears to have happened
> is that the directory '~pfrench' has been created in /home/pfrenchwhicgh
> isnt right surely ?
>
> I;m not sure how to duplicate this though, as having moved the defaults 
> I cant
> get it to repeat the behaviour.

It should have moved defaults from ~pfrench/GNUstep to 
~pfrench/GNUstep/Defaults

The creation of ~pfrench/GNUstep is largely unrelated to the moving of 
the directory
and the warning.

I recently changed the makefiles package to use ~$LOGNAME as the home 
directory
rather than ~ as that is consistent with the behavior of the NSUserName()
function (which takes the LOGNAME environment variable as the preferred 
name
for the current user).  However, older code was not correctly expanding 
the
path ... and creates an incorrect directory.

Once you have up to date packages installed, this problem should go away.