On Monday 07 May 2001 20:36, Jens Benecke wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:41:24AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > > > > I'd like all of you who have done some sort of customization of your > > > > KDE installations to look over it and figure out what bits would be > > > > good for Debian. What parts would enhance the KDE default > > > My vote goes on configuring /usr/share/applnk as config files, so that > > > they don't get clobbered by an upgrade. (i.e. moving them to > > > /etc/kde2/applnk or something) > > Here, I meant mimelnk of course. applnk is created by the menu tools, isn't > it? > > > then you have to deal with left over files (*.dpkg-old, etc...) which if > > not removed will cause duplication in menus and KDE doesn't like > > duplication. I'll attempt this one more time. The last time I tried > > this it caused alot of problems unrelated to the Debian conffile bits. > > Hm... the last time I asked about this in KDE they promised in the 2.x > versions there would be a way of merging more than two "lnk" (applnk, > mimelnk, etc) directories into one common menu / association structure. > That way you were supposed to get global pre-installed /usr/share/applnk, > global customized /etc/kde2/applnk (put an empty file there to hide the > global pre-installed entry with the same name), and your own > $KDEHOME/share/applnk and all would merge together. > > Did anything happen there? That would be the ideal solution ...
KDE 2 introduced the env variable KDEDIRS that list dirs like PATH. (details are in kstddir.h) Not sure if this help because debian has no common root like /opt/kde2 Achim > > > > The other solution would be to provide default applnk files in > > > /etc/skel, but I think that is a kludge. For now I have symlinked > > > /usr/share/applnk to /etc/kde2/applnk but that's a kludge IMHO, and I > > > don't know if it breaks the next update. > > just moving the files into /etc doesn't make them conffiles. > > I know ;) but I have /usr mounted read-only and that was the only way to be > able to change the stuff without having to remount all the time. > > > -- > Jens Benecke > "Dann nimm lieber gleich Pattex!" > "Na, ob das was hilft - der Hersteller ist schlie�lich eine > Gesellschaft mit beschr�nkter Haftung :-)" (-- aus dem Usenet) > http://www.hitchhikers.de/ - Die kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale f�r ganz Europa > -- To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
