Global ktrash settings

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2012-04-23, John McMonagle wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2012 11:54:44 am Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Monday, 2012-04-23, John McMonagle wrote:
> > > On Monday 23 April 2012 11:26:48 am Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > > On Monday, 2012-04-23, John McMonagle wrote:
> > > > > I want to set default trash settings.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I tried putting the following in  /etc/kde4/ktrashrc
> > > > > .............................
> > > > > [$HOME/.local/share/Trash]
> > > > > Days=7
> > > > > LimitReachedAction=1
> > > > > Percent=10
> > > > > UseSizeLimit=true
> > > > > UseTimeLimit=true
> > > > > ...................................
> > > > > 
> > > > > Does not work  :-(
> > > > > Suspect it does not like $HOME like this.
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, I am not sure configuration sections can be made shell
> > > > environment variable dependent.
> > > > But you could try
> > > > 
> > > > [$HOME/.local/share/Trash][$e]
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Kevin
> > > 
> > > Adding [$e] did not help :-(
> > 
> > Ah, too bad. Seems it is only supported for config entries, not sections.
> > 
> > You could try modifying user's configs using the config update tool
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tools/Using_kconf_update
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> 
> Kevin
> 
> Never saw update tool before.

It is normally only used by application developers when they change their 
config handling in certain ways that requires change of already existing config.

> Are there any more examples?

Most old applications should have several such file and associated scripts 
installed.

Look into subdirectory kconf_update in paths output by this command
kde-config4 --path data

> A global setting would be easier but that should be safer than running a
> script through the user config files.

I do agree of course, however since our attempts at making an appropriate 
default failed I thought 'll provide you with other options.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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