kdedirs design

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tuesday 16 September 2003 17:18, George Staikos wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 September 2003 05:28, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > 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.
>
>    Well I was hoping someone would have a better suggestion. :-)  Most
> problems can be solved...

Instead of re-generating the complete database on disk it could be split up in 
multiple per-directory databases that would need to be updated when files are 
installed in the directory (like the font caches) That will make it harder to 
make easy to use cross-linked indexes but we could generate those in memory 
in a kded module. (KDE 4)

Cheers,
Waldo
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