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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Multiple KDE setups
From:       David Faure <faure () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-04-29 9:38:33
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On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 11:29:59AM +0200, Harri Porten wrote:
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > 
> > Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > >
> > > So I could have $HOME/.kde-hi and $HOME/.kde-lo and two setup scripts
> > >
> > >    #!/bin/sh
> > >    KDELOCALDIR=$HOME/.kde-hi startkde
> > >
> > > Does this sound reasonable?
> > 
> > Actually some user sent me a patch to change all $HOME/.kde to
> > kdelocaldir() to
> > make it customizable for him.
Can you apply it ? (HEAD branch, now...)

> > But make sure that all applications are
> > consistent
> > here.
> 
> Yes. Unfortunately there are quite a few occurences of .kde left. I try
> to eliminate them each time I encounter one. Hint for new KDE
> developers: Take a look at kapp.h and make use of the offered methods
> instead of assembling paths on your own.
> 
> Btw: I often saw the need for ~/.kde/share/apps/k*. Should we offer a
> function for that ?
Yes, definitely.
"kde_localdatadir()" ?

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David FAURE
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