On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:19:00PM -0700, Itai Seggev wrote: > The problem bug is a real bug and not a result of upgrading. I a fresh > install with the new sarge installer beta 4, and the problem > persisted. I also have discovered why this problem manifested in > 3.1.4-3. The binary packages search /etc/qt3/ and /usr/share/config > for config files. Up to (and including) 3.1.4-2, /usr/share/config was > a symlink to /etc/kde3; hence, it could find the config files. In > 3.1.4-3, this symlink was removed. This also explains why installing > from debian source over the binary package also fixed the problem > permanently: the source install installed the config files into > /usr/share/config, so any later binary package could find the config > files. Thus, there are 3 solutions to this (and presumably other, > related) bugs: > > 1) Recompile the packages to add /etc/kde3 to the config file search > path. Its already in the config file search path. I modified the source directly to look in both /etc/kde3 and /usr/local/share/config. I suppose there could be some sort of bug in the code of the thing that is using libkdecore. kde-config --path config /root/.kde/share/config/:/etc/kde3/:/usr/local/share/config/:/usr/share/config/ > 2) Turn /usr/share/config back into a symlink to /etc/kde3 This should not be needed for the above reason... > 3) move all the files in /etc/kde3 to /etc/qt3 or /usr/share/config This should not be needed either... and is in fact a violation of Debian policy so can't be done. > I don't know how these options interact with the debian > policy. Presumably you guys do. :) Let me know what you decide. I will try adding the symlink to see if it helps me see the themes. If so then I guess there is a bug somewhere in that something isn't using the paths that kde-config knows about. Thanks, Chris
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