From kde-core-devel  Thu Dec 02 14:30:41 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 14:30:41 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: User installed apps, Was: kded excluding dirs?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94414504124741

David Faure wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> >
> > > weis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > lets try again:
> > > >
> > > > At university our students can not install apps since they are not
> > > > root. So they can install only in their home directories.
> > > > People reported to me that they can not install the RPM
> > > > packages in their home dirs. Is there any way?
> > > >
> > > > And further more: Can we set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to contain
> > > > $HOME/.kde/libs ? Distributors should in addition
> > > > add $HOME/.kde/bin to $PATH, or we do that in startkde.
> > > No, don't use $HOME/.kde - that is for written files. You can
> > > install into any file. You won't have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > > with anything compiled out of KDE's configure :)
> >
> > How could I doubt :-)
> >
> > > And when you can install software, you surely can also extend
> > > PATH :)
> >
> > Once it works with some RPM stuff this might not be true any more ...
> >
> > > >
> > > > And (related to ksycoca) if two services of the same name and the
> > > > same servicetype exists. One of the user and one in the global
> > > > environment. In this case it would IMHO be a good idea to perfer
> > > > the service the user has installed himself. How does
> > KSyCoCa handle
> > > > this ?
> > > >
> > > KStandardDirs eliminates duplicates by default
> >
> > So kSyCoCa uses KStandardDirs to find the .desktop files ?
> > Or was that just: "At least my class does it right" ?
> 
> Both classes do it right, but NO, ksycoca doesn't use KStandardDirs
> to find the .desktop files - because ksycoca has a very flexible design
> (using factories which could save anything in the ksycoca file, each
> factory having a list of dirs, and the parsing loop looking for files
> being the same for all).
> void KBuildSycoca::readDirectory is a port of the one in the previous kded,
> using QDir to get the list of files in each directory.
> 
> Of course ksycoca factories uses KStandardDirs to get the list of dirs to
> parse,
> though. It just doesn't use the fact that "KStandardDirs eliminates
> duplicates by default".
> 
OK, didn't know that, but I was just stating that it could be :)

Greetings, Stephan

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