[Bug 230247] Akonadi::Control::start() does not work

[Lamarque V. Souza]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230247


Lamarque V. Souza <lamarque at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Lamarque V. Souza <lamarque gmail com>  2010-09-07 19:06:53 ---
I use Gentoo and used to have this problem until KDE SC 4.5.0, with KDE SC
4.5.1 it is working ok after some changes I had to make because I use kdeprefix
USE flag, which installs KDE in a separated directory (/usr/kde/4.5). There is
some time that Gentoo does not support kdeprefix but I decided to keep using
it.

One thing I noticed when I had this problem is that /usr/kde/4.4/share (I use
kmail-4.4.5) wasn't in XDG_DATA_DIRS because /usr/kde/4.5/bin/startkde
overrides the settings in /etc/env.d/ by removing all /usr/kde/*/share
directories and adding only /usr/kde/4.5/share. After I changed startkde to add
/usr/kde/4.4/share it worked as expected. OpenSuse 11.3 use /usr/share/kde4 to
store the KDE's share directory and by what I saw in /usr/bin/startkde and
/etc/profile.d/xdg-environment.sh it does not add /usr/share/kde4 to
XDG_DATA_DIRS, maybe this is the cause of the problem in OpenSuse. I cannot
fully test this because I do not have OpenSuse installed here.

Another thing I noticed is that plasma-desktop runs akonadi-server at login, so
when I call kmail akonadi-server is already running and kmail does not need to
call Akonadi::Control::start(). Even if I stop akonadi-server (akonadictl stop)
and start kmail, kmail is able to start akonadi and run ok here. The only thing
I had to do is configure XDG_DATA_DIRS correctly in startkde. It is very
important that XDG_DATA_DIRS is correctly configured in startkde or all KDE
programs use a misconfigured XDG_DATA_DIRS to call programs, which affects
Akonadi::Control::start(). I created a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart to
call env command to save the environment variables to a file and then I noticed
XDG_DATA_DIRS wasn't configured correctly. In konsole XDG_DATA_DIRS was
configured correctly because it always run the /etc/profile script that
restores the correct configuration.

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