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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: make install starting X programs
From:       iglio () fub ! it (Pietro Iglio)
Date:       1999-03-02 10:48:15
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At 11.40 02/03/99 +0100, Mathias Kettner wrote:
>Hello developers!
>
>Currently we are packaging some KDE applications from ftp.kde.org for
>the SuSE distribution.  There is a problem with a few packets that
>start an X application in 'make install'.
>
>For example kthememanager-1.0.0 tries to execute:
>
>test -z /opt/kde/bin/kwmcom ||/opt/kde/bin/kwmcom kpanel:restart
>
>Thus to install the package you need a running KDE and access to the
>display. This makes much problems when you try to make a clean build
>by an automated script. IMHO Restarting the panel shouldn't be done in
>'make install'. It should be done by the user just as in almost
>every other package.

FYI: kpanel under the CVS (was: kpanel2) doesn't need a restart when new
apps are added under the k-menu. The new apps are "seen" as soon as the
corresponding menu is displayed.

-- Pietro

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