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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: What is the "appdata" ressource?
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-11-28 18:42:28
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Christian Esken wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> can anybody explain the "appdata" resource to me? I did
> 
>   QString l_s_bg = locate("appdata", "Skins/k9/knine-normal2.png");
> 
> and got back a NULL pointer. But when doing:
> 
>   QString l_s_bg = locate("data", "kaiman/Skins/k9/knine-normal2.png");
> 
> I got the correct result.
> 
> I thought using "appdata" would be a better solution, but why doesn't it work?
> 
Depends on KApplication. It uses name() to add standard dirs. So
KApplication::name()
has to return "kaiman" in your above example to do the same. It may be
(but I have
no idea how :) that it returns lt-kaiman when you run it out of the
builddir, but
I think we worked around that. Please debug :)

Greetings, Stephan

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