KDE is a vendor

[Leo Savernik]

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Am Mittwoch 18 August 2004 15:42 schrieb Richard Smith:
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> If you mean $KDEDIRS, that's not a workaround. I install each
> separately-distributed package into its own directory in $HOME/packages
> (with a script to set up KDEDIRS, PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH) and everything
> works perfectly. At the moment, all of KDE is in one package directory, but
> I plan to fix that next time I rebuild all.

This approach should actually be the default for external (3rd party) KDE 
apps. It should be possible to install them wherever the administrator wants 
them to go, independent of the KDE prefix.

Beginning with 3.3, KDE makes provisions for KDE apps to find out about their 
prefix at runtime if they are installed outside of $KDEDIR. The KConfig magic 
will ensure that the access to resources stays transparent. (This feature is 
linux-only, but we're talking about the linux file hierarchy.)

The icons would have to be linked to the apps directory to make them visible 
in the K-Menue.

mfg
	Leo
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