How to set the KDE path?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 18:00, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Start with http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-01/msg00812.html maybe?

Ah, I see, thanks. I did not realise it would be that easy to break X,
in fact it looks like I should have!


> What I've seen of the responses on your quest to solve this disgusts me.
>

The disdain towards these "users" isn't what bothers me, but the
rejection of the notion that the path should be user-configurable does
bother me. But that disdain shows up in other bugs and feature
requests where users' concern is expressed. That said, I think that
overall Plasma is an amazing example of software and I appreciate the
work that the dev in question puts into it.


> What I do with alien installs is put them in /usr/local/, then start them
> using fullpath of the executable, putting it in a script in default $PATH if
> necessary to ease load on user memory.
>

I am simply using wrapper scripts to launch the full applications,
such as this Thunderbird example to provide yyyy-mm-dd dates in that
app:
✈ganymede:~$ cat .bin/thunderbird
#!/bin/bash
export LC_ALL="";export LC_TIME="en_DK.utf8";/usr/bin/thunderbird "$@"
✈ganymede:~$

Also, it should be assumed that users _do_not_ have write access to
anything outside /home/user or /tmp. Especially altering /usr/bin
which would affect other users.


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Dotan Cohen

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