Re: Some KDE libs still use .kde4 instead of .kde?
On 2009-10-22, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at> wrote:
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> On Thursday, 2009-10-22, George Kiagiadakis wrote:
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>> This cdbs makefile is no longer used in our packages. What is reading
>> .kde4 is Qt, not kde.
>>=20
>> Take a look at this code:
>> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/master/src/gui/kernel/qapplication_x1=
> 1.
>> cpp#line889
>> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/master/src/gui/kernel/qkde.cpp#line59
>>=20
>> In short, Qt prefers reading from .kde4 if it is there, which is the
>> correct thing to do, given that Qt has no idea which is the default
>> KDEHOME.
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> How can this be considered the right thing to do?
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> KDEHOME defaults to $HOME/.kde if not set
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> Checking for whether $HOME/.kde4 exists when KDE is in version 4 could be=20
> considered as a fallback when $KDEHOME is empty and $HOME/.kde does *not*=20
> exist.
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> The very moment either $KDEHOME is set or $HOME/.kde exists than that path =
> is=20
> the only correct choice.
I guess it depends on the system, but yes, in debian it is the only
correct choice to prefer .kde.
For suse it would be to prefer .kde4.
I guess we should patch this away.
/Sune
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