I have built deluge from the git trunk using the default python for OSX (Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, May 17 2011, 10:52:47)) and after an installation with --prefix=$HOME I am getting the following exception when running '$ deluge-gtk'
File "/Users/mike/bin/deluge-gtk", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('deluge==1.3.900-dev', 'gui_scripts', 'deluge-gtk')()
File "/Users/mike/lib/python2.6/site-packages/deluge-1.3.900_dev-py2.6.egg/deluge/ui/gtkui/gtkui.py", line 89, in start
Gtk().start()
File "/Users/mike/lib/python2.6/site-packages/deluge-1.3.900_dev-py2.6.egg/deluge/ui/gtkui/gtkui.py", line 86, in start
GtkUI(self.args)
File "/Users/mike/lib/python2.6/site-packages/deluge-1.3.900_dev-py2.6.egg/deluge/ui/gtkui/gtkui.py", line 181, in init
self.config = deluge.configmanager.ConfigManager("gtkui.conf", DEFAULT_PREFS)
File "/Users/mike/lib/python2.6/site-packages/deluge-1.3.900_dev-py2.6.egg/deluge/configmanager.py", line 125, in ConfigManager
return _configmanager.get_config(config, defaults)
File "/Users/mike/lib/python2.6/site-packages/deluge-1.3.900_dev-py2.6.egg/deluge/configmanager.py", line 117, in get_config
self.config_files[config_file] = Config(config_file, defaults, self.config_directory)
File "/Users/mike/lib/python2.6/site-packages/deluge-1.3.900_dev-py2.6.egg/deluge/configmanager.py", line 54, in config_directory
self.config_directory = deluge.common.get_default_config_dir()
File "/Users/mike/lib/python2.6/site-packages/deluge-1.3.900_dev-py2.6.egg/deluge/common.py", line 143, in get_default_config_dir
return xdg.BaseDirectory.save_config_path("deluge")
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xdg/BaseDirectory.py", line 59, in save_config_path
os.makedirs(path, 0700)
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
I think the proper behavior is for the OSX version of deluge to operate as the linux version and look to the user's home directory as the first place for saving config information.