Review Request 109675: Make sure that the KDE prefix comes first in XDG_DATA_DIRS

[Vishesh Handa]

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Seems like a good idea to me. I cannot have a "Ship it" as I'm not familiar with the code.

Btw, I just checked and I have a `prepend XDG_DATA_DIRS $KDEDIR/share` in my KDE environment variables, that is probably why I never encountered this.

- Vishesh Handa


On March 24, 2013, 4:31 p.m., Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
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> (Updated March 24, 2013, 4:31 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs and Vishesh Handa.
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> Description
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> Planned commit message:
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> Make sure that the KDE prefix comes first in XDG_DATA_DIRS.
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> I tracked down a Nepomuk problem to this. Nepomuk file indexing didn't
> work because the ontologies were too old. Nepomuk loaded ontologies
> from /usr/share instead of my KDE prefix /opt/kde4/share, because
> /opt/kde4 was the very last entry in the respective search list in
> KStandardDirs. The first entries in that search list all came from
> XDG_DATA_DIRS, which in my case (Kubuntu) is set by the X session
> initialization scripts. That is before startkde runs, so startkde
> never touched XDG_DATA_DIRS. But it should, and now it does.
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> Diffs
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>   startkde.cmake 8361fe0 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/109675/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Hartmetz
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