[Kde-games-devel] How to test ui.rc files?

[Alexander Schuch]

Ah, thank you too. Now as I know what to look for, I even found this
documented at http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Architecture/KDE4/XMLGUI_Technology#Lookup_of_.rc_files_.2F_versioning.

On 30 October 2013 03:56, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30/10/2013, at 1:33 AM, Alexander Schuch wrote:
>> On 29 October 2013 23:17, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>>> El Dimarts, 29 d'octubre de 2013, a les 23:00:32, Alexander Schuch va
>>> escriure:
>>>> In order to get this action into the toolbar by default, the file
>>>> konquestui.rc needs to be adjusted. The problem is, that I do not find
>>>> a sane way to actually make my development copy of Konquest to use
>>>> this file.
>>>>
>>>> What I do right now from the git checkout directory is:
>>>>
>>>> - remove ~/.kde/share/apps/konquest/konquestui.rc
>>>> - remove ~/.kde/share/config/konquestrc (probably unrelated)
>>>> - mkdir build && cd build
>>>> - cmake .. && make
>>>>
>>>> Starting Konquest now makes it use
>>>> "/usr/share/kde4/apps/konquest/konquestui.rc" instead of my
>>>> development copy. Even telling "cmake" to use a prefix/installation
>>>> directory and installing it using "make install" won't add the file
>>>> there and as a result won't make Konquest use it.
>>>
>>> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/foo/bar
>>> with
>>> export KDEDIRS="/home/foo/bar"
>>
>> This does work nicely. Thanks.
>
> Also, I think you should increment the value of version="n" at the
> start of the ui.rc file (as a permanent change) every time you start
> changing a ui.rc file.  This will cause it to override any older versions
> that may be in your $HOME/.kde4 area (e.g. because of keyboard
> config changes).  Ditto for any end-user of your released ui.rc file:
> he/she will then get your version not the previous one.
>
> Cheers, Ian W.
>
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