Bug#35766: discovering kapptemplate takes forever

[jjinux at yahoo.com]

Package: kdevelop
Version: kdesdk-2.2.1 (using KDE 2.2.1 )
Severity: wishlist
Installed from:    FreeBSD Ports
Compiler:          g++ 2.95.3
OS:                FreeBSD
OS/Compiler notes: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

As a new KDE developer using FreeBSD (masochistic, in a sense), I found that it took me forever to "discover" kapptemplate.  This is because FreeBSD does not install kapptemplate when installing kdesdk.  The reason this *isn't* a FreeBSD bug is that kapptemplate isn't really meant to be installed by root--rather, it works best when installed as the developer (e.g. it refers to $HOME during the installation).  Because I already had kdesdk installed, and because kapptemplate wasn't installed, it took me forever to discover that kapptemplate even existed.  The same goes for the example, kless.  It'd be nice if this situation could be remedied by documenting it somewhere.  If it is documented somewhere, please forgive me--what's the URL?  By the way, I don't think that I'm the only one who was clueless--I found a couple of FreeBSD related bugs in kapptemplate, and I submitted patches--proof that few others "had passed that way" in quite a while.

Thanks, and great job on KDE!

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)