Icon loader ignoring $XDG_DATA_HOME

[Waldo Bastian]

On Saturday 10 June 2006 23:01, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

Jan de Groot pointed out that there is even a bugreport for it: 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97776
(Thanks Jan)

Cheers,
Waldo
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Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group - Intel Corporation
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