On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to configure kded which directories to watch for new
> mimetypes, .desktop-files, et al?
> I imagine our university network, where the KDE-installation is quite
> static (you wouldn't need to run kded at all), but with KDEDIRS, a user
> could install his own additions, where kded would make sense.
> So could I tell kded to watch e.g. ~/kde, but not /usr/KDE?

Should be possible.
 
> I don't think 500 users stat'ing our /usr/KDE hierarchy once in a second
> over NFS would be a good idea.

True.

Cheers,
Waldo