On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 12:38:01AM +0100, Jens Benecke wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:51:33PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > > Ok folks...I'm making a change that'll affect user config's. The config > > dir which by default points to $(prefix)/share/config is being changed to > > $(prefix)/share/kde2/config which means that the files in > > ~/.kde/share/config will no longer be used but rather a new > > ~/.kde/share/kde2/config will appear...so all your config stuff that w.. > > Can you explain _why_ you are making this change? > Or is it too complicated ;)
interoperability really. Currently we don't use /usr/share/config which KDE defaults to for configuration files...instead we go with /etc/kde2 to follow FHS and Debian policy and we provide a /etc/kderc file to tell KDE about it since the core system doesn't like things outside of it's $(prefix). This is all fine and dandy except when we start looking at kde3. I don't want to hose up configuration files or other things when we start doing things with kde3. So this allows for us to do away with /etc/kderc and just provide a hardcoded (since it's with KDE's $(prefix)) per release config dir. /usr/share/kde2/config would be a link to /etc/kde2 and /usr/share/kde3/config would be a link to /etc/kde3 and thus we can tell kde apps about config settings without having a confliction between what kde3 uses and what kde2 uses. Ivan -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
