FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Including additional Tracker add-ons

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> ... and remove the "cd /boot/home" in the .profile, you mean, I 
> suppose.

Exactly.

> I don't think that's a good idea, though, since then we lose the 
> ability to 
> start applications in another directory than the home directory using 
> BRoster::Launch(). Besides this would particularly not solve the 
> Summon/TermHere problem.
> 
> Alternatively, we could change .profile this way, but let the 
> applications 
> that start other apps (Tracker, Deskbar, LaunchBox) make sure that 
> they 
> change their cwd to "/boot/home" by default.

Indeed, on second thought, it should be enough to switch to the /boot/
home directory before user apps like Tracker are started.

Bye,
   Axel.