KConfig and $HOME

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 12 October 2007 3:00:43 pm Thomas Braxton wrote:
> 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?
> 
Yes, that is how ossi explained it to me.