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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Missing mime types?
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2008-10-31 5:23:58
Message-ID: 200810310624.06591.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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On Friday 31 October 2008, David Johnson wrote:
> I don't want KDE3 entries showing up in my KDE4 menu, so I set my
> XDG_DATA_DIRS to /opt/kde4/share. But then I get errors that there many
> missing mime types, so bad that konqueror is unusable. I unset
> XDG_DATA_DIRS, then I the mimetypes are there, but so are all of the KDE3
> entries in the menu.
>
> I have a hard time believing that KDE4 is dependent on KDE3 for critical
> mime files. How do I get KDE4 working without KDE3 interfering (but without
> uninstalling KDE3)?
>
> KDE3 is from kubuntu packages, KDE4 is built from trunk.

KDE4 depends on the shared-mime-info package (basically MIME info shared 
between free software desktops) which is installed into /usr/share which in 
turn is one of the defaults of XDG_DATA_DIRS if the variable is unset.

Short of adding at least /usr/share to the XDG_DATA_DIRS as well, you could 
install its source package into the same prefix you are using for your KDE 
trunk installation.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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