Setup file for startkde

Andy Fawcett andy at athame.co.uk
Fri Feb 20 10:02:12 GMT 2004


On Friday 20 February 2004 11:55, David Faure wrote:
> Here's a proposal for a one-liner addition to startkde, which would
> allow people to set environment variables to be used by KDE, but also
> to run programs that set environment variables, like ssh-agent and
> gpg-agent.
>
> I thought of ~/.kde/setup: under ~/.kde in order to avoid cluttering
> the home dir, but right under there so that it's easy to find/edit.
> Of course we won't ship such a file by default, but e.g. the
> instructions for setting up ssh-agent and gpg-agent for KDE would
> tell people to edit ~/.kde/setup.

It's a good idea, and similar to something I am already working on for 
the FreeBSD ports of KDE (to handle local customisations).

Having it upstream would of course benefit everyone. It's such a minor 
change, I would like to see it in 3.2.1

A.

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