Hi, While perhaps related to debian, and packaging, I'd like to add that third party KDE-based apps also seem unable to locate other files, such as .ui files, which locate themselves in /usr/local/kde/share/apps/<appname>.
Even though compiled locally, the apps themselves can't then find these files. I had to move these to my own ~/.kde/share/apps/<appname> as the other one doesn't appear to be searched properly. (JuK, for those interested, is broken if compiled on Debian with these packages, and segfaults when trying to play ANYTHING, until I fixed it as described above) Cheers, David On Tuesday 13 May 2003 18:39, Dominique Devriese wrote: > Hi, > > ( i'm not sure if this is the debian kde development list, or if it's > more of a user list, so please refer me to the right place if this > isn't the place for this ) > > The only Debian kdelibs patch, > kdelibs/debian/patches/kdelibs.dirs.diff changes KGlobals to only look > for html resources that are named "$prefix/share/doc/kde/HTML" ( and > changes some cgi-bin search path too.. ). > > This patch breaks the documentation of all third party KDE > applications, since these packages ( at least those that use the > standard KDE build system to install docs ), install their > documentation in "$prefix/share/doc/HTML", and this is never searched > by kio_help, even when KDEDIRS is set properly. > > So my question is: > Wtf is this patch intended to fix, and why does it not make sure that > people installing third party kde apps from source can still read the > documentation.. > > Basically, I see three ways to fix this problem: > 1 remove the patch. This would probably also mean some > work to make the docs install in the proper place again.. > 2 fix the patch, to make sure it *also* searches in the old place > 3 keep the patch, and fix the kde build system to make sure that a > 3rd party source package properly detects where it should install > its documentation. > > What do you think ? > cheers > domi > > -- > Conscience doth make cowards of us all. > -- Shakespeare
