[Kde-kiosk] KDE 3.3.1 seems to get exec expansion wrong

Russell Brown russell at lls.lls.com
Fri Jan 14 10:42:51 CET 2005


I've updated my system to KDE 3.3.1 (debian), NOT changed my global
config files and now the expansion of shell commands doesn't work.

For example, in my global kmailrc I've the lines:

	[Identity #0]
	Organization[$ei]=$(getdef COMPANY)

(getdef is a utility that returns a string).

Pre 3.3.1 (using 3.2.3), the Organization is kmail would be set to the
string that getdef prints.  

Now (3.3.1) the Organisation field contains "$(getdef COMPANY)" - ie no
shell expansion is being done.  As I use shell expansion to fill in lots
of defaults this isn't good news :-(

Any idea what's changed?  Is this intentional?

-- 
 Regards,
     Russell
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