On 1/22/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I'm following all of this because I generally only install
> KDE. I'm not having any issues. I just installed OO and it put sever
> .desktop file in /usr/share/applications and they showed up in the KDE
> menus as expected. The only XDG variable I have set is XDG_DATA_DIRS.
>
> -- Bruce
>
> XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/opt/kde/share
>
> and
>
> $ ls -R /etc/kde
> /etc/kde:
> ksysguarddrc xdg
>
> /etc/kde/xdg:
> menus
It's kind of complicated because there's a spec (the XDG Base
Directory spec) and then all the desktops implement it themselves. So,
GNOME appears to act differently than KDE and XFCE with respect to the
default XDG directory locations. FWIW, I bet if you unset
XDG_DATA_DIRS, you'll see no changes because I think KDE hardcodes the
location ${datadir}/share at build time. GNOME doesn't as far as I can
tell. I haven't confirmed that, though.
--
Dan
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