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

[tnagy]

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------- Additional Comments From tnagy at eleve.emn.fr  2003-07-30 01:49 -------
In fact I know how to do to make it work. I just want to point out a usability
problem which is annoying to everybody except us - the developers.


** Most linux distributions do not set QTDIR and KDEDIR, and this feature is not
advertised much.

** The readme very seldom contains a notice "please type export
KDEDIR=`kde-config --prefix` before ./configure;make;make install"

** Why couldn't ./configure detect itself KDEDIR ? Isn't that what ./configure
is supposed to do ? detect the best paths for installation ?

** It is deliberately pushing the users into the pitfall : it does not warn that
the program is not being installed in the standard distro path and that the
pixmaps will perhaps not appear properly in the program.

** Generally speaking "./configure --prefix `kde-config --prefix` " is more
complicated than "./configure", I doubt that it adds more value to the
installation process.


Try to think a little bit more about the end-users !! How could the kde desktop
be more user-friendly and still rely on obscure commands for the installation of
the kde programs ?!?!?

Put a "WONTFIX VERY SOON" on this bug/wish, but do not ignore it please !