kdedirs design

[Martijn Klingens]

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 03:56, George Staikos wrote:
>    The problem is that KDE picks up the files in /usr first.  Can we
> reliably detect this situation and warn/error out if the app is installed
> twice?  Can we make the bin path correlate with the "primary" source for
> data (.rc files, etc)?  Another suggestion?

Depends on the app, but as soon as you need ksycoca or anything else that is 
shared between KDE you're screwed. We have the same issue with Kopete, but 
there's no way to avoid it, besides installing both in their own dir, setting 
KDEDIRS before running and starting kbuildsycoca first.

-- 
Martijn