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

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 04:09, Adam Treat wrote:
> 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.  

Yep. [But if you had to add a command-line option to some script that starts
your app, it wouldn't be a big deal, so the argument against a cmdline option
is really the non-kde-developer case - not necessarily a newbie in general.]

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

BIC == Binary Incompatible Change; surely you meant BC :)

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