.kde or .kde4

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sat Feb 7 18:54:01 GMT 2009


Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>On Saturday 07 February 2009 16:38:21 Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>   Nathan England wrote:
>> >Hello Hello,
>> >
>> >What is the prefered ~/ config directory for kde 4.2 ?
>> >Currently I have all my packages built to use .kde4 but I've noticed
>> > a few places that are saying either or... So is there one that is
>> > prefered?
>> >
>> >Or is it still best to keep it .kde4 if I'm using some kde3 apps?
>>
>> The default is .kde.
>
>Some distros however set it to ~/.kde4. It's determined by the env var
>$KDEHOME.

Not really. If you set the environment variable, it applies to KDE 3 as 
well.

There's a setting in kdelibs and kdebase to change the default without 
setting the environment variable. Some distros use it when compiling KDE.

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