From koffice-devel  Thu Oct 18 01:22:22 2007
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:22:22 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: A directory for color profiles
Message-Id: <4716B54E.90909 () acm ! org>
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Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Sunday 14 October 2007, you wrote:
>>        /usr/share/color/icc/
> I found a problem with this, that means that we need "root" rights when 
> installing. And 99% of us don't do a make install with "root" rights, and I 
> also don't like the idea of having to be root to install koffice. (I used to 
> have my own built of KOffice 1.5 on a system at work where I hadn't root 
> rights, and even if I had I wouldn't want to mess up my work system with a 
> make install). 
> 
> One solution is to install in ${PREFIX}/share/color/icc , as most distribution 
> install in /usr or /usr/local that would do the trick. But does anyone knows 
> how to get the installation prefix in the code ?
> 
We all tend to forget that when we say "/usr/" something that we are 
presuming that the app was installed with $PREFIX=/usr which is not 
always the case.  Yes, an app should install them in:

	${PREFIX]/share/color/icc

There shouldn't be a need to have the code aware of this IF it looks for 
it using either $KDEDIR:

	$KDEDIR/share/color/icc

[KDEDIR being one of the entries in KDEDIRS]

or XDG_DATA_DIR:

	$XDG_DATA_DIR/color/icc

[XDG_DATA_DIR being one of the entries in XDG_DATA_DIRS]

And look for them in one of those places.  XDG_DATA_DIRS now replacing 
KDEDIRS.

In either case, it is a matter of user configuration since you want it 
to search all the relevant places, not just one.

-- 
JRT
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