XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR and KStandardDirs

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 24 December 2013 15:46:34 Alex Merry wrote:
> This got a bit lost in the other thread on the kde4support tests...

Ah. I think I unconfused it a few minutes ago, didn't see this.

> I want to advocate setting XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR to be
> $CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/share/applications instead of
> $CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/share/applications/kde5.
> 
> I think we should be putting our application desktop files directory in
> share/applications, not in share/applications/kde5.

I agree, but not for the reason below.
The reason below can be fixed by just fixing KStandardDirs.
But indeed we can make our lives easier by just using share/applications 
everywhere, like everyone else does.

David.

> The reason this has come up is that KStandardDirs currently contains a
> hack for how it compiles the value of xdgdata-apps.  The upshot of this
> is that if the directory $CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/share/applications does
> not exist, KStandardDirs::resourceDirs("xdgdata-apps") does not contain
> that directory, but instead contains XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR, which is
> $CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/share/applications/kde5.
> 
> In normal circumstances this does not happen (because the directory
> normally does exist, and if it doesn't it's kind of irrelevant), but it
> does cause one of the unit test to fail on Jenkins.  Changing
> XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR would fix it, but it is not the only way to fix it.
>  I just think that XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR *should* have a different value.
> 
> Alex
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