Bug 713332

Summary: XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable breaks GSettings
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jamie Lennox <jlennox>
Component: gobject-introspectionAssignee: Colin Walters <walters>
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Description Jamie Lennox 2011-06-15 02:24:00 UTC
I'm not sure gobject-introspection is the right place for this bug so please move if appropriate.

Description of problem:
I used to set XDG_DATA_DIRS to pick up data when i installed applications into my profile rather than globally, however under F15 this breaks. 

I see that XDG dirs are handled with .config/user-dirs.dirs which i'm not used to, so maybe settings this env conflicts with this. 

Having XDG_DATA_DIRS set crashes looking up gsettings when looking up schemas.

How reproducible:

Always (for me)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. $ export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/usr/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS 
2. $ python 
3. >>> from gi.repository import Gio
4. >>> Gio.Settings.new('org.gnome.SessionManager')

Actual results:
GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.SessionManager' is not installed

Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)


Expected results:
<Settings object at 0xb7592874 (GSettings at 0xa094228)>


Additional info:

This is not a pygobject thing as when coming across the bug i had the above set in ~/.bashrc and it was causing gnome-session to fail.

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