KConfig and $HOME

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Thu Oct 11 21:01:54 BST 2007


On Thursday 11 October 2007, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Thursday 11 October 2007 1:12:30 pm Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> > Right. All KDE3 configs (and pre-KConfig-merge) need to be upgraded and
> > all Entries that have $HOME and are supposed to be expanded need to have
> > [$e] added to the entry key.
> >
> > The new KConfig only expands $HOME on entries that have this special
> > flag set.
>
> Is there no way around this?
> Will kde3 apps work if they see the [$e]?

I think so. It is documented here
http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/Configuration_Files#Shell_Expansion

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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