On 1/22/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/22/07 11:55 CST:
>
> > So, the test is this. If you have KDE in /opt/kde without
> > /opt/kde/share in XDG_DATA_DIRS, do you still see the applications in
> > the GNOME menus? You can also go the other direction if you have GNOME
> > in /opt/gnome and start a KDE session.
>
> I initially had this in the book, thinking that if you had KDE and
> GNOME both installed, you'd see all the menu choices from both
> desktops on whichever one was running at the time.
>
> Alas, all it did was create a jumbled mess on both desktops*. That's
> why I removed the "If you have both installed, do this:" stuff. I
> couldn't get it to behave properly. But perhaps I didn't set it up
> correctly. You see, you end up with two trashcans and all sort of
> redundant stuff that doesn't belong in the desktop you're currently
> running.
>
> Is this what you're asking about?
Hmm, maybe you're right there. I hadn't really thought about what you
happen if a session knew about all the settings at once. Perhaps only
the DATA_DIRS should take both desktop settings.
Interesting. I have a SuSE partition on my laptop, and this is what they have.
$ cat /mnt/suse/etc/profile.d/xdg-enviroment.sh
if test -z "$XDG_DATA_DIRS" ; then
export
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/etc/opt/kde3/share/:/opt/kde3/share/:/opt/gnome/share/
fi
if test -z "$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS" ; then
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/usr/local/etc/xdg/:/etc/xdg/:/etc/opt/gnome/xdg/
fi
So, apparently you can put them all together at the same time because
GNOME wasn't weird at all. I'm confused now.
--
Dan
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