KDE Installation instructions

[Saro Engels]

S Page schrieb:
> Saro Engels wrote:
> 
>> please try to kill all kde related applications first (especially 
>> kioslave.exe, kded4.exe and klauncher.exe).
>> then run:
>> C:\kdewin-installer\Flock> update-mime-database 
>> C:\kdewin-installer\Flock\share\mime
>>
>> and then:
>> C:\kdewin-installer\Flock> kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
> 
> Thanks for adding these steps to
> <http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation#post-install>
> 
> They solved my problems with saving and opening files.  KDE4 on Windows 
> is much more usable for me now!
> 
> As written there they don't quite work, because that page doesn't say to 
> add KDExxx\bin to your PATH, just "your lib directory".  I ran the 
> commands with bin\ prepended and they worked fine so I changed the 
> instructions.  (Or you could tell people to first navigate to 
> KDExxxx\bin; or if people need KDExxx\bin in their PATH then let us know.)
> 
> I was confused by this sentence:
> "Even if you should set XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_DATA_DIRS it worked perfectly."
> 
> 
> Do people building from source or using emerge need to run the same 
> steps?  If so, perhaps they should be on a common page, "KDE on 
> Windows/Running".
Well for now, yes.

regards
SE