On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:40:56PM +0200, Dominique Devriese wrote: > Paul Cupis writes: > > Paul> On Wednesday 14 May 2003 14:41, Dominique Devriese > Paul> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> No, that's not the problem. The problem is in the patch > >> kdelibs.dirs.patch that only Debian applies. It makes it such > >> that for any given prefix ( whether it is /usr, /usr/local or > >> /usr/local/kde doesn't matter ), it expects the documentation to > >> be in "$prefix/share/doc/kde/HTML/" instead of > >> "$prefix/share/doc/HTML". This is purely Debian's "fault", and > >> it doesn't happen on SuSE because they don't mess with this..
Sorry I came in so late, I was finishing up at uni. At this point does it even make sense for it to be called /HTML? Only a few files in the tree are even html, almost all are either docbook or png files. Perhaps rename it to share/doc/kde/khelpcenter or even just share/doc/khelpcenter since all those docs are only used through it (right?). Also I have a gripe about KStandardDirs in general. It forces me to put crappy /usr/share/config fixup symlink to /etc/kde3 in Debian since it is based off --prefix. IMHO it should use the kderc file like the other function (forgot which) does. Having any directories hardcoded into the source file when kderc file exists is very bad, especially since it seems it doesn't even attempt to use the kderc file in KStandardDirs. Because of this I have to patch up for the html dir, cgi-bin dir, and config dir (by putting a symlink in). Perhaps the source file relating to this could be a kstandarddirs.cpp.in that gets its dirs filled in at setup time via configure. Even if the issue with /etc/kde3 and the others get resolved we still have the manually set KDEDIRS when you install into multiple places issue. I am not sure how gnome does it, but I believe that with it you can install into /usr/local (please correct me if I am wrong) without having to manually change things and pretty much every other application works that way as well. Someone probably should look into how they manage to make it work, and devise a way to make it possible for KDE as well. Thanks, Chris
