From kde-devel  Sat Jan 07 15:25:27 2012
From: Niko Sams <niko.sams () gmail ! com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:25:27 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Hacking KDE applications
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On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 13:16, Bjoern Schiessle <bjoern@schiessle.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> some weeks ago I started hacking some small KDE apps. Most notable
> Choqok. But to run and test my modified versions I always had to install
> the program system wide. Running it from my home directory result in
> empty setting dialogues and messages like this:
>
> choqok(18397)/kdecore (trader) KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers:
> KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType =A0"Choqok/Plugin" =A0not found
>
> Since the system is not only a development system but also my productive
> day-to-day system I consider it quite unfortunate to install a
> application system wide just to test my modifications.
>
> How does other KDE developers handle this situation? Is it possible to
> compile and run a program in my home directory without messing up my
> system installation?
>
You can set up your development environment like described here:
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Environment#Sample_.build-con=
fig_file

And also run kbuildsycoca4 before starting the application to make
sure all plugins
are found.

Niko

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