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[Vedran Furač]

David Faure wrote:

> On Monday 09 February 2009, Vedran Furač wrote:
>> Hi!, I'm not subscribed to the list so I'm bypassing it.
> (You can still post though, the messages get moderated in)

Oh, didn't know that.

>> David Faure wrote:
>>
>>> No application other than kmail will ever read it -- and this would make it
>>> more difficult to use the $KDEHOME trick to separate settings from two
>>> versions of KDE.
>> Why not:
>>
>> ~/.config/KDE3  ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$KDEHOME)
>> ~/.config/KDE4  ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$KDEHOME)
> 
> (the current meaning of $KDEHOME is that it's a full path, not a relative path,
> and that it contains much more than just config stuff, so it would have to be 
> another var, but apart from that, that would work indeed)

Yes, there are XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_CACHE_HOME.

> => Yes, why not.
> Changing this now would be a rather big migration issue though
> (I wonder if kconf_update would do the job since it itself has to read stuff
> from a config file...)
> ... and we have far more urgent things to fix IMHO.

I agree.

> But this sounds like something that could more easily be done at KDE 5 time,
> unless someone volunteers to do it [properly] before.

OK.