#18130: XDG_* variables: getenv() gets different results if app is run from a
console or from GUI
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Reporter: bipolar | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: - General | Version: R1/beta4
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Platform: All
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Many ported software makes use of the XDG_* variables ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME",
"XDG_DATA_DIRS", etc).
Haiku currently exports those from `etc/profile.d/xdg_basedirs.sh`.
The problem is that `getenv()` gives different results if the app is
launched from a Terminal window, or by double clicking in it, for example.
It gets the proper values in the first case, and NULL on the latter.
Will attach a very basic example app (please excuse the poor code) that
exhibits this behavior.
Over haikuports this is currently fixed for many apps by directly patching
them, but the fix seems to be simpler... as hinted by Pulkomandy [here
https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/commit/655df3db34b268cb4b2c5947f1dfe323d9a7a1d6]:
just source `etc/profile.d/xdg_basedirs.sh` from, for example,
`~/config/settings/boot/UserSetupEnvironment`.
Doing the latter, the attached test case app shows the expected/correct
behavior.
Should this enough/valid for ported apps, or am I missing something else?
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/18130>
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