[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 738873] wayland backend aborts entire program if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR unset

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738873
  gtk+ | Backend: Wayland | unspecified

Daniel Stone <daniel> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> 2014-10-21 12:25:40 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> We follow the xdg spec and implement a fallback for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (in
> ~/.cache) if it is unset.

Unfortunately, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is the only directory the spec doesn't mandate a
specific fallback for; instead, it just says 'a replacement directory' with
specified capabilities. Is ~/.cache widely accepted as the best fallback? And,
if so, should that perhaps be encoded in the spec?

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