[UPDATED] Re: KConfig and $HOME

[Allen Winter]

Whoops! sent the wrong perl script.  New one is attached.

On Thursday 11 October 2007 6:43:27 pm Allen Winter wrote:
> On Thursday 11 October 2007 4:27:12 pm David Faure wrote:
> > 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].
> > 
> So each an every application that might have a $HOME in their rc file
> will need to install a myapp-kde3_to_kde4.upd file that looks like:
> 
> Id=myapp_kde3_to_kde4
> File=myapprc
> Script=convert-kde3_to_kde4.pl,perl
> 
> Create the myapp-kde3_to_kde4.upd file, and add this line to your CMakeLists.txt:
> install( FILES myapp-kde3_to_kde4.upd  DESTINATION ${KCONF_UPDATE_INSTALL_DIR})
> 
> One possible convert-kde3_to_kde4.pl script is attached for your review.
> 
> I think all the .upd files can use the same script.  So, I think we can install
> convert-kde3_to_kde4.pl someplace from kdelibs.
> 
> For more info, see http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tools/Using_kconf_update
> 
> Please review and let me know if I should install convert-kde3_to_kde4.pl
> 
> -Allen
> 
> 
> 



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