From kde-core-devel  Sun Oct 31 14:48:06 1999
From: John Corey <jcorey () fruity ! ath ! cx>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:48:06 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Config file layering
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94138134509909

Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> > > I have some doubts, can someone please enlighten me about what is the
> > > order on which KDE's config files are layered?
> >
> > The default is something like /opt/kde/share/config/.... followed by
> > $HOME/.kde/share/config/... whereby the last one takes precendence.
> >
> > The user can change this/add more directories by setting the KDEDIRS
> > environment variable.
> >
> > Never actually tried this though :-)
> 
> I doubt anyone did :)
> 
> Greetings, Stephan

I did a bit around June/July when I was porting some apps to
KStandardDirs.  I had config files, data files, etc in up to four levels
to ensure everything still worked.