[RFC] XDG basedir spec should mandate absolute paths

[Bastien Nocera]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 03:53 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> currently the xdg basedir spec doesn't make clear that all env vars need
> to be set to absolute paths.
> 
> Anybody opposed if I add a small sentence whith clears that up?
> 
> Background:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646950

I'd like to add that whether or not Totem would crash with a relative
path is beyond the point. I believe that the spec should require an
absolute path, and GLib should print out a warning, and use the default
path if the envvar is invalid.

Cheers