KStandardDirs behaviour when finding directories

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Montag 30 Juli 2007 schrieb Dmitry Suzdalev:
> Hi!
>
> While searching for bug which prevented loading styles in Kopete I
> found the following issue.
>
> Suppose I want to find a directory with KStandardDirs. If I write it like
> this:
>
> QString path = KStandardDirs::locate("appdata", "SomeDir");
>
> then it returns an empty path even though
> ~/.kde/share/apps/myapp/SomeDir exists.
> It finds this path only when I write:
>
> QString path = KStandardDirs::locate("appdata", "SomeDir/");
>
> i.e. with slash appended.
>
> So is this a bug or a feature?
> If this is a feature then it should be documented somewhere in
> KStandardDirs apidox.
I can find only "file" everywhere in KStandardDirs apidox. So what in the 
apidox makes you think it also works for directories? We can change that

Greetings, Stephan