<div dir="ltr">Ian,<div><br></div><div>QCoreApplication gets the organization name and application name from whatever we tell it. Look at <a href="http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kanagram.git&a=blob&h=94effa89abfe69f50ea0888bb2c8b99564130166&hb=57783ce14365e087573930cb9dff4ed948c4c190&f=src%2Fmain.cpp">http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kanagram.git&a=blob&h=94effa89abfe69f50ea0888bb2c8b99564130166&hb=57783ce14365e087573930cb9dff4ed948c4c190&f=src%2Fmain.cpp</a> for example in the KF5 porting notes it suggests setting the application name and organization name when porting from KApplication to QApplication so it can use those values in other things like KConfig and such I think.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:17 AM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thursday December 11 2014 19:13:25 Ian Wadham wrote:<br>
>René has mentioned ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist as a way to set environment variables,<br>
>but that is deprecated in OS X 10.7 (Lion), which I have, and was dropped in OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion).<br>
>In Lion, you do not get that file created by default. Maybe you never did.<br>
><br>
>I googled "Apple OS X environment.plist" and got scads of hits, but this one seems to sum things up nicely:<br>
><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/603785/environment-variables-in-mac-os-x/4567308#4567308" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/603785/environment-variables-in-mac-os-x/4567308#4567308</a><br>
><br>
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</span>Ah! I wasn't aware of that. The upgrade process left my copy in place, so I could only assume it still worked.<br>
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And of course I never bothered to roll a test application that doesn't use a shell to print out its inherited environment :-/<br>
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R.<br>
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