Idea for KDE Project

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 03 June 2003 15:03, Andrew Wendt wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 June 2003 08:21, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > Something I have wondered though... Don't most programs store the
> > > --prefix they were ./configure'd with? Why can't KDE programs do
> > > this? They could search their prefix directory, and then the main
> > > KDE directory, and that's it.
> >
> > I think they do, at least you don't have to specify the main KDE
> > directory.
>
> But then if you don't add the application's directory to KDEDIRS it
> can't find its files, right?

Not if it's prefix is kde-config --prefix

> > > Then I would not have to mess with KDEDIRS, and also one KDE app
> > > wouldn't be searching for its files in the directories of all my
> > > other unrelated KDE apps.
> >
> > The application does not search itself, it lets some part of KDE libs
> > do the locating of files.
>
> Yeah, but it could still pass along its --prefix directory as an extra
> place to search to whatever function in kdelibs does the searching.

Yes, that would work.

You could file a bug report (wish list) for that.

Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
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