KConfig and $HOME

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 11.10.07 22:01:54, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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

Interesting, so it seems I stand corrected. Nevertheless backward
compatibility is still not supported with kde config files.  At least
AFAIK.

Andreas

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