storing full paths in configuration

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

It's a bad idea to put the full path to the user's homedir in
configuration files, because the user may use the same homedir 
with multiple machines (different nfs mountpoints etc)

A quick grep of gconftool-2 -R / reveals:

  /apps/gthumb/general:
    startup_location =
    catalog:///home/devel/hp/.gnome2/gthumb/collections/Command Line.gqv

  /apps/gnomechat/identity:
    photo = /home/devel/hp/.gnome/photo

  /apps/epiphany/directories:
    downloading = /home/devel/hp

  /apps/panel/profiles/default/objects/0t1042494582ut679501u2379p8004r1608175216k3221218252:
    launcher_location = file:///home/devel/hp/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/hammer-001ea70be8.desktop

Also rumor has it that Evolution does this.

It would be better to store ~ and then expand it on demand.

This is the kind of thing that should really be in some kind of test
plan for each GNOME release.

Havoc