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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Portability of KDE Applications
From:       Nate Graham <nate () kde ! org>
Date:       2019-08-21 20:52:21
Message-ID: 7485327d-0b43-c7d9-7fd2-4f08f097ec82 () kde ! org
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As far as I understand, this is the reason why AppImage was invented. 
KDE KDE apps can be packaged as AppImages, no problem. You might want to 
look into that.

Nate


On 8/21/19 2:36 PM, Никита Сиргиенко wrote:
> Yes, but setting a few environment variables for each application start 
> doesn't look very user friendly.
> 
> So, I hope, there is another solution.
> 
> ср, 21 авг. 2019 г. в 21:19, Francis Herne <mail@flherne.uk 
> <mailto:mail@flherne.uk>>:
> 
>     On Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:18:10 BST Никита Сиргиенко wrote:
>      > Hi all,
>      >
>      > Has anyone had issues with KDE Apps (based on kde frameworks)
>     portability?
>      >
>      > I mean, the app can use different types of file: .rc, .knsrc, .png,
>      > additinal binary files, etc
>      > The problem appears, if you installed this files non standart
>     installetion
>      > prefix, like /opt.
>      >
>      > Obviously, I can forward-pass installation prefix path, binary
>     path, etc
>      > from Cmake to the aplication, but I am interested, is there
>     support for
>      > situtation like this from KDE frameworks?
>      >
>      > Just an example: the app have a few .rc files for menus, can I set
>      > additional search path for kde core addons (better from cmake,
>     but settings
>      > path for example from main.cpp not bad too, if it need done only
>     one time),
>      > and use not absolute path?
>      >
>      > I know, that Kde apps more target to kde platform, but the
>     application is a
>      > part of KdeEdu project, and portability is very important for us
>     (for our
>      > application), because we target for students, and the students often
>      > haven't administration rights on work computers, used for education.
>      >
>      > Best Regards,
>      > Nikita
> 
>     Most KDE applications are very tolerant of unusual paths.
> 
>     Besides the various prefixes at build/install time, you might need
>     to set
>     environment variables, particularly QT_PLUGIN_PATH and those
>     specified by
>     https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> 
>        - Francis H
> 
> 


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