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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    kfm wish... was Re: Suggestion about localisation
From:       Peter Silva <peter.silva () videotron ! ca>
Date:       1999-02-19 3:43:06
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Roberto Alsina wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> > David Faure wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 03:42:45PM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> > > > Just creat a icon "chinese kvt" that starts "LANG=whatever kvt".
> > >
> > > No, this doesn't work with KDE apps.
> > > The language is taken from ~/.kderc (I think) first. Ignoring any $LANG value.
> > >
> > That's true. We ignore LANG because we don't want to depend on the
> > terminal
> > the application started from. So $LANG is for terminal applications and
> > $KDE_LANG
> > for KDE applications. $LANG is of course taken if both $KDE_LANG and
> > .kderc
> > doesn't have a value.
> 
> So, "LANG=de LC_ALL=kde KDE_LANG=de kvt" will start a german terminal which
> launches all german apps?
> 

It would be cool for .kdelnk files to support environment variables.
If I put the above in the Execute line of a .kdelnk file, and I get 
"Could not execute program LANG=de"  Does one have to create an
explicit script just to set a variable?  Seems silly.
I'd like a .kdelnk property that allows setting of arbitrary
environment variables, for things like...

	MOZILLA_HOME=/opt/netscape-37/lib
or 
	TZ=ESD5EDT  (I normally run in GMT0)



-- 
Peter

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