Qt KDE integration in kdereview.

[Michael Pyne]

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 17:10:19 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2009-11-03, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > Le Tuesday 03 November 2009, Kevin Krammer a écrit :
> > > On Tuesday, 2009-11-03, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > > > Qt tries already to make KDE (and GNOME) as much as it can. For
> > > > instance, we try to guess the KDE style and the
> > > > KDE palette from the KDE config files.   This however not 100%
> > > > reliable: For instance, we do not know the location of KDEHOME (when
> > > > $KDEHOME is not set). Is it ~/.kde or ~/.kde4 or other? We use
> > > > QSettings to parse the KDE config file (which does not understand
> > > > every KDE tricks)
> > >
> > > KDEHOME is easy: $HOME/.kde is not set
> > > http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/Environment_Variables
> > >#K DE HOME
> >
> > No.  Some distribs change the default to .kde4 (there is a cmake flag to
> > change it, and it can be set to anything)
> 
> You mean they change the default but forget to apply the same change to Qt?

You act like you're surprised. ;)

Besides, the end user can just as well toggle that switch as the packager if 
they build from source (and that's not the entire point of Olivier's patch 
anyways).

> Maybe startkde could set KDEHOME to localprefix if it is not set yet?

That wouldn't be a bad idea either, it's easier just to always have KDEHOME 
set than special-casing it.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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