Custom build has effects missing (and named strangely)

[Johannes Bauer]

Heya Jean-Baptiste,

On 18.03.2018 14:48, Jean-Baptiste Mardelle wrote:

> Kdenlive effects are described in xml files. The problem you describe
> clearly means that Kdenlive cannot find the xml files. Did you install
> your custom Kdenlive build ? It probably requires to be installed in
> /usr to properly find the xml files.

I did run "make install" on kdenlive, but your diagnosis was spot-on:
kdenlive only searches in /usr but also in ~/.local/$somewhere. I did an
strace on kdenlive to find out the ENOENTS and spotted some "rc" files
that were required.

So I've improved the build scripts to create/verify symlinks:

~/.local/share/kdenlive -> PREFIX/bin/share/kdenlive

and

~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/kdenlive -> PREFIX/bin/share/kxmlgui5/kdenlive

With this, kdenlive now works properly.

It would be nice if kdenlive would also search in the PREFIX
subdirectories, but this works for now.

Thanks a lot for your quick help,
Johannes