KDE4 Patch to allow testing/execution of uninstalled kparts/XMLGUI applications

[Adam Treat]

On Monday 08 August 2005 9:58 pm, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 03:30, Adam Treat wrote:
> > I understood it to mean a new command line argument that would specify
> > the .krcdirs filename.  This way, if the flag isn't present, everything
> > takes place as normal.  I can't really see where this is a big security
> > improvement, but I could take this approach instead, rather than use the
> > current working directory...
> >
> > It wouldn't mean anything other than the app would have to be executed
> > with the a '--resources' command line parameter in order to run
> > locally...  Does this sound better to you, David?  Or do you think we
> > should just go with the CWD?
>
> I see so many people run "./kmyapp" and it fails (no menus, no icons etc.),
> I think we should make it work out of the box. Just like libtool solves
> that problem for shared libraries, we should solve it for kde resources. I
> can't see where the security issue comes from - yes someone can install a
> file which will then be used at runtime, but they can do just the same with
> shared libs already.
>
> IMHO we should go with the CWD, otherwise it defeats the purpose altogether
> (people who understandthe KDE resource mechanism know that they have to
> "make install" first, this fix is for those who don't - so they wouldn't
> know about a cmdline option either).

Note that this is useful to non-newbies too.  I _hate_ having to install large 
kparts applications everytime I make a change.  It is time consuming.  

Ok, then I'm going to go with CWD.  I think this is BIC so I'm going to 
"backport" to 3.5 too.

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