On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:46:01AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > Also I have a gripe about KStandardDirs in general. It forces me to put > crappy /usr/share/config fixup symlink to /etc/kde3 in Debian since it > is based off --prefix. IMHO it should use the kderc file like the other > function (forgot which) does. Having any directories hardcoded into the > source file when kderc file exists is very bad, especially since it seems > it doesn't even attempt to use the kderc file in KStandardDirs. Because > of this I have to patch up for the html dir, cgi-bin dir, and config dir > (by putting a symlink in). Perhaps the source file relating to this > could be a kstandarddirs.cpp.in that gets its dirs filled in at setup > time via configure. Well, there's that, and the whole "surely nothing else will ever be installed in the same prefix!" part, which is easily the most depressing thing about KDE. > Even if the issue with /etc/kde3 and the others get resolved we still > have the manually set KDEDIRS when you install into multiple places > issue. I am not sure how gnome does it, but I believe that with it you > can install into /usr/local (please correct me if I am wrong) without > having to manually change things and pretty much every other application > works that way as well. Someone probably should look into how they > manage to make it work, and devise a way to make it possible for KDE as > well. Well, they don't do the tricks like dlopen()ing virtually every app ever, and such. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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