Icon loader ignoring $XDG_DATA_HOME

[Thiago Macieira]

Waldo Bastian wrote:
>It seems that KDE doesn't look in $XDG_DATA_HOME/icons for icons as per
> icon spec. I would like to know if that is going to be (or has already
> been) fixed and if so, in which version(s) such fix can be expected. I
> can work around it in Portland/xdg-utils but if the icon spec is to be
> included in LSB 3.2, a fix is needed. For Portland it would be nice to
> know which versions of KDE require a workaround (As far as I can see it
> affects every version up till now).

As far as I can tell from the code in kstandarddirs.cpp and 
kiconloader.cpp, all versions are affected. The workaround would be to 
symlink ~/.kde/share/icons to $XDG_DATA_HOME or vice-versa. Another 
possibility is to have either KDEHOME or KDEDIRS point to XDG_DATA_HOME.

The proper fix would probably involve adding a "xdgdata-icons" to the 
prefix list in KIconLoader::init.

But this is not my area of expertise, so I could be way off the mark here.

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