[Kwintv] Installation Directories (was: Select Source - source not found)

[George Staikos]

On Friday 21 March 2003 09:50, Stefan Hellwig wrote:
> On Friday 21 March 2003 15:26, George Staikos wrote:
> > The problem is that KDE doesn't find the .desktop files because it is
> > not configured to search there.  You can either configure it to search
> > there, or you can install it along with the rest of the KDE apps. :-)
>
> Well, yes, I know, but my question was rather if all of KDE is installed in
> /usr/local/kde right from the beginning would this cause any problems with
> QtVision and why? I assume that if you install all of KDE in
> /usr/local/kde it will also search for .desktop files there, correct? In
> that case QtVision should also work within that directory structure.

   No it should not.  You can install wherever you like.  I install in 
/opt/kde3 on one machine for instance, and a really weird directory on 
another machine.

> Of course, if it is just QtVision that's installed in /usr/local/kde
> whereas the rest of KDE resides in /opt/kde or whatever then that's
> certainly a problem. But doesn't configure try to automatically detect the
> installation directory of KDE ($KDEDIR) and install the packages
> appropriately?

   I was thinking about this too.  I think it should, but I guess it does not.  
We'll definitely fix this at some point.

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George Staikos