Re: [boost] [filesystem] home_directory_path

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] home_directory_path
From: Patrick Horgan (phorgan1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-22 22:53:52

  On 10/19/2010 09:06 PM, Ravi wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 October 2010 09:56:45 Christian Holmquist wrote:
>> Is there a POSIX equivalent for My Documents?
>> Without a way to retrieve My Documents, I for one still needs my own
>> wrapper for that..
> On newer Linux systems, try $XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR for an equivalent. Not sure
> whether it will make it into POSIX.
Data point, I'm on Ubuntu Meercat which is pretty new 
and doesn't define this.  I only get:

XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=caae1d00b0a381de2973b0004748ac01-1287635546.203915-557877136
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/

Patrick