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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Absolute paths in .kde/share/config/
From:       Brad Hards <bradh () frogmouth ! net>
Date:       2006-07-27 6:48:54
Message-ID: 200607271649.01340.bradh () frogmouth ! net
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See below for a question posed on my local LUG list.

Is the use of absolute paths deliberate? It would seem undesirable, as noted 
by Bob Edwards.

Brad

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Subject: [clug] another KDE question
Date: Thursday 27 July 2006 14:19
From: Robert Edwards <bob@cs.anu.edu.au>
To: linux@lists.samba.org

Mainly for Brad, but if anyone else knows the answer...

In my home directory, KDE has put a directory .kde, with some sub-dirs
including one called share. In this there are a number of files and
directories some (many) of which encode an absolute path to files in
this area.

eg. in ~/.kde/share/config/startupconfigfiles, I have several refs to:
/home/bob/.kde/share/config/kcminputrc etc.

Is it possible to configure KDE at run-time to use relative paths
from the users home directory instead? If not, what about at build
time (I am using Kubuntu here, so I prefer not to rebuild)? If not
at all, then what is the thinking behind using these absolute paths?

The reason I am asking is two-fold:
  - moving my home directory causes issues
  - copying my home directory to be used as a template for others
	also causes issues.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.
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