KConfig and $HOME

[David Faure]

On Thursday 11 October 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> >Does kconf_update support adding [$e] to config keys or do all
> >developers of KDE applications have to write ugly Perl scripts for
> >this?
> 
> kconf_update is for updating user config files. Why would there be $HOME 
> without [$e] on user config files (aside from manual tinkering)?

Well, simply because kde3's writePathEntry didn't write it out? See your ~/.kde/share/config/, it's full of
values with $HOME without [$e].


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David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).