Tirifto <tiri...@posteo.cz> writes: > After some investigation, it turned out that GNOME Shell falls back on > a certain default value when the variable is empty, which already > contains paths that GNOME Shell needs to function properly. So when the > user extends the existing value of ‘$XDG_DATA_DIRS’ with another path, > the variable is no longer empty, so GNOME Shell never gets to fall back > to the paths it actually needs, and crashes instead.
GNOME does this in accordance with XDG Base Directory Specification, see https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html "If $XDG_DATA_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ should be used." -- Mikhail
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