Re: install kdetheme for all users

[Xavier Brochard <xavier@alternatif.org>]

Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2011-09-06, Xavier Brochard wrote:
>> Kevin Krammer wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, 2011-09-06, Xavier Brochard wrote:
>> >> How can I install a kdetheme globally (i.e. for all users)?
>> >> I've tried to put it in /usr/local/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/ but
>> >> it does nothing. Suppose I need to update a path somewhere, but ...
>> > 
>> > apps/something looks like a KDE data path
>> > 
>> > try /usr/local/share/apps/desktoptheme
>> > 
>> > (/usr/local/share/apps is part of the output I get from kde4-config
>> > --path data)
>> 
>> /usr/local is not on the path from kde4-config
>> but I'm not sure that kde4-config is the right tool to find path of
>> desktop theme because kde4-config --types output doens't contain themes
>> or styles.
> 
> kde4-config types are the different types of location KDE apps can use for
> different forms of data/files.
> 
> But those are base paths, the actual files are usually in subdirectories
> decided upon by the apps.
> 
> and /usr/share/kde4/desktopthemes looks like kde-data-path/desktopthemes.
> 
> If /usr/local is not part of your search list, you could set $KDEDIRS so
> that it contains /usr/local:/usr

Oh yes KDEDIRS! sometimes I forget the easiest things! :-)
thanks.
xavier