KConfig and $HOME

[Thomas Braxton]

On 10/12/07, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:50:30AM -0400, Allen Winter wrote:
> > 1) support reading environment variables with or without the [$e]
> > 2) support writing environment variables only with the [$e]
> >
> most definitely not. variables were never just expanded.
> we are talking exclusively about {read,write}PathEntry(), for which
> $HOME/ at the beginning is sort of a magic token. i don't think it makes
> much sense to change that behavior in any way.
> and btw, this means that if somebody uses a $e path entry, he has to
> write it $$HOME/... in the ini file.


Sorry I just checked my mail, I want to make sure exactly what we want here
so I can fix it tommorrow. It looks like we want to convert $HOME/ anytime
readPathEntry is used even if there is no [$e], is this right?
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