Re: Where to set KDEDIRS or alternative?
On Sunday 12 July 2015 19:53:38 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2015-07-12, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
> >>Oh, but /usr/local/kde4/bin *is* in the PATH on my system. And
> >>with=20 KDEDIRS set appropriately, KDE did find them there, too.
> >>
> > I'm unclear on that; Was /usr/local/kde4/bin(1) included in the
> > PATH
> > setting and KDEDIRS _also_ referred to it, or did only KDEDIRS
> > reference that specific directory? Not that it matter much; If
> > the directory is in the PATH, IDK why things aren't being found
> > there.
>
> KDEDIRS is needed to have sycoca4 pick up things like plugins and
> stuff.
>
> And very many apps is mostly built out of plugins.
In my case, without KDEDIRS being effective, desktop files below
/usr/local/kde4 are no longer found. And so KDE doesn't know about these
applications anymore.
Michael
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