[PATCH] Make startkde work with not-default KDETMP and KDEVARTMP

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 09 January 2008 15:56:39 Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 January 2008, David Faure wrote:
> > Isn't there a ::mkdir() call inside lnusertemp itself?
>
> There is, but that whole lnusertemp works strangely. It treats KDETMP
> and KDEVARTMP as a *base* for the temporary directories and appends
> /kde-user and /kdecache-user to them and tries to mkdir KDETMP/kde-user
> and KDEVARTMP/kdecache-user, which fails.
>
> Sincerely I didn't want to change it as there is too much risk to break
> that code for me, who doesn't know what exactly it verifies and tries to
> do.

The thing is that KDETMP points to /tmp, not to the KDE temporary directory. 
Same for KDEVARTMP: it points to /var/tmp, not to the KDE Cache dir. It would 
be much easier if we had overriding variables for those instead.


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