[Bug 61808] New: kde applications should detect the right path and install themselves into it

[tnagy]

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           Summary: kde applications should detect the right path and
                    install themselves into it
           Product: kdevelop
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: RedHat RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdevelop-devel at kdevelop.org
        ReportedBy: tnagy at eleve.emn.fr


Version:           kde 3.1.1a (using KDE KDE 3.1.1a)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          gcc 3.2 
OS:          Linux

This is not entirely related to gideon, but rather to all kde applications. 

Everytime I install a kde application (make -f Makefile.cvs;./configure;make;make install), I have to specify the path of my kde installation (--prefix=/usr) otherwise everything is installed in /usr/local, or worse, in /opt.... In many cases I forgot to add --prefix=/usr and I had to re-(./configure --prefix=/rightprefix;make;make install).

What's more, the icons, translations, menus .. may not appear in the application because of that path problem. I've encountered this problem on many distributions (slackware, mandrake, redhat ..)

Isn't that possible to have a default file (eg: /mykdepath/kdebase.sh) which will say 'hey, kde base dir is here' and then the ./configure script will find automatically where to install the applications accordingly (scanning very quickly the most common paths), or at least warn the user that the default kde dir is not where the program is being installed ????

This, in my opinion, would make the installation process a lot more user friendly.