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Martijn Klingens wrote:
>Suppose we install a 3rd party app in $APPDIR, then for this application
> (and *ONLY* for this application) the resources should be looked for in
> $KDEHOME, $APPDIR, $KDEDIRS. If kbuildsycoca could create multiple
> sycocas (one for $KDEHOME, one for $APPDIR and one for all shared
> lower-level dirs combined) and merge them then we can keep the
> performance level up and also keep apps in their own prefix. The
> existing full sycoca can (and probably should) be kept for performance
> reasons for the apps that reside in $KDEDIR.

We already *do* that on Linux and on other platforms where we can=20
reasonably well determine what the application executable is. (On Linux,=20
we readlink(2) /proc/self/exe). The prefix is then added to the list of=20
resource dirs.

So an application requesting an icon will find it is in own prefix even if=
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it's not registered in KDEDIRS or XDG_DATA_DIRS. This even works for=20
libraries looking resources up when the the library's prefix is neither=20
registered nor the same as the application's.

The issue here is for the shared resources: those that are supposed to be=20
found by other applications., like .desktop menu files, MIME types, etc.

Maybe we can have a 3rd option: install into ${prefix} and symlink=20
into /usr. Some kind of "broken symlink removal" tool should be run every=20
now and then to clean up.

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