[kate] [Bug 504753] PATH is not set correctly when Kate is launched graphically

[Waqar Ahmed]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504753

Waqar Ahmed <waqar.17a at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #3 from Waqar Ahmed <waqar.17a at gmail.com> ---
> Thank you for the easier workaround. That said, I'm reopening this because it is, in the end, only a workaround.

Well, this is the solution we have for now. We tried many other things but
there are issues such as path precedence among other things that I dont recall.
There were almost 0 documentation that I found on how to do this properly.

If you have a better solution or a way to fix the problem, then we accept
patches here: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests.

> "This list will be prepended to your PATH environment variable", which simply isn't true right now.

It kind of is in a way as the PATH isn't what you would find in your shell. The
PATH env var here refers to the data returned by:

        int mib[2] = {CTL_USER, USER_CS_PATH};
        size_t len = 0;
        sysctl(mib, 2, nullptr, &len, nullptr, 0);
        QByteArray path(len, '\0');
        sysctl(mib, 2, &path[0], &len, nullptr, 0);

Sorry, this is it for now unless someone comes with a better solution.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 490926 ***

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