[kde-linux] Change desktop file search path in kde 3.5.10

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Murray Trainer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using KDE 3.5.10 on kubuntu 8.0.4. I want the KDE desktop entry search
> path for my KDE kiosk profile to only include
> /usr/local/share/applications. I have tried various things in /etc/kderc
> but it still includes /usr/share/applications which gives me duplicate mime
> entries. Any ideas on how to make this work the way I want?

I think the responsible environment variable is XDG_DATA_DIRS. If unset or 
empty it defaults to /usr/local/share:/usr/share

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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