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

[Murray Trainer]

>From: "Kevin Krammer" <kevin.krammer at gmx.at> 
>To: kde-linux at kde.org 
>Sent: Tuesday, 25 November, 2008 6:51:49 PM GMT +08:00 Perth 
>Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Change desktop file search path in kde 3.5.10 

>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 

Hi Kevin, 

Thanks for your reply. I eventually figured out my problem. I changed dir_mime in /etc/kderc to /usr/local/share and now things behave the way I want. 

Thanks 

Murray 



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