[Kst] Re: [Bug 250555] kst2 does not install a desktop file

[Peter Kümmel]

On 07.01.2011 22:43, Nicolas Brisset wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250555
> --- Comment #1 from Nicolas Brisset <nicolas brisset eurocopter com>  2011-01-07 22:43:21 ---
> Peter, 
> 
> has this possibly been handled with your cmake commit introducing install rules
> earlier today?

I don't think so, the cmake rules are completely unrelated to the old build system.

> 
> By the way, one point that matters a lot to me is that we keep the option of
> installing kst as non-root, i.e. specifying a specific non-standard prefix
> should work (which is normally the case with KDE apps if you care to set the
> KDE_DIRS env variable). Not every user has root privileges, and relying on
> sysadmins or distros to provide up-to-date versions of the fast-moving target
> that kst is (when everything goes well) has already proven to be impossible in
> the past.
> 

By default the install path is currently <build-folder>/INSTALLED which could
be changed by the cmake option kst_install_prefix.

BTW what are the .desktop good for? Are they Kst specific?

Peter