svn commit 7524 - kde confdir path patch

fboudra at free.fr fboudra at free.fr
Thu Oct 18 08:38:53 UTC 2007


Hi people,

I don't agree with the kde confdir path patch.

KDE4 uses a non-standard /usr/share/config path as _default_ confdir but uses
other methods too.

It is compliant to freedesktop.org base directory specification:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/basedir-spec

see http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/Environment_Variables for
more informations.

As a 2nd method, we can add additional search paths as used in desktop-base:
http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/KDE_Filesystem_Hierarchy
http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/XDG_Filesystem_Hierarchy

btw, http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration is a must read.

I would like to avoid useless patches or quick workaround when kde provides
enough flexibility to achieve what we want.

cheers,

Fathi



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