.kde or .kde4

Michael Pyne mpyne at purinchu.net
Sat Feb 7 16:10:01 GMT 2009


On Saturday 07 February 2009, Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009 23:30:57 Nathan England wrote:
> > What is the prefered ~/ config directory for kde 4.2 ?
>
> While we default to ~/.kde, you should be able to use both, so stay with
> ~/.kde4 if you're happy with it. Any KDE application relying on ~/.kde is
> certainly broken.

KDE applications shouldn't muck about in the directory anyways, use the 
kdelibs methods for accessing data instead.  And if they do, they should use 
the KDEHOME environment variable first (KDEHOME being unset is where default 
values come into play).

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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