[Kstars-devel] default stars catalog

James Bowlin bowlin at mindspring.com
Sun Aug 24 21:10:57 CEST 2008


On Sun August 24 2008, Jason Harris wrote:
> Not to worry; the default version will be installed at
> $KDEDIR/share/apps/kstars/deepstars.dat, whereas the big version,
> installed via the Download Extra Data tool, will live at
> $KDEHOME/share/apps/kstars/deepstars.dat.  This directory's raison
> d'etre is to store files that override the stuff under $KDEDIR.  KDE
> knows to look for files in $KDEHOME first, and $KDEDIR if not found
> in $KDEHOME. So there's no need for extra logic, and overwriting the
> larger deepstars.dat won't happen if/when kstars is updated.

Perfect!  Thanks for letting me know.

-- 
Peace, James


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