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Re: /.qt directory



On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:03, Thomas Ritter wrote:
> > Maybe kdm thought that "/" was it's home directory.  kdm wants to create
> > .qt, .kde, etc in it's home directory.  It would be really nice if kdm
> > could be changed to think it's home directory was something under /var to
> > make a distinction between the root user and kde daemons running as root.
>
> I'd rather suggest /etc/kde3 - that's the proper place for those things.

IFF kdm doesn't modify those files...

However I believe that as kdm uses so much code KDE code it will want to 
modify files and therefore needs somewhere with write access.

But I agree that anywhere is better than the root home directory!

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