-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have been thinking, and I think it would be cool if the esteemed Debian KDE packagers would consider the attached patch for startkde (which gets installed as /usr/bin/kde3). :-)
The basic gist of it is that third-party apps installed from tarballs would work properly out-of-the-box on a standard Debian KDE installation. But read the patch. It's small. - -- Nathaniel W. Turner http://www.houseofnate.net/ Tel: +1 508 579 1948 (mobile) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9vzgA25cAeUrFyDIRAiO7AJ448nnlk3Ws6xEm4/S8/X+2I1JkqACgsYwT St8v5lOSsGfIc/Lu4FGSxdE= =3m4o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--- startkde 2002-09-28 18:12:12.000000000 +0000 +++ startkde.new 2002-10-30 00:47:56.000000000 +0000 @@ -39,6 +39,27 @@ kdehome=$HOME/.kde test -n "$KDEHOME" && kdehome=`echo "$KDEHOME"|sed "s,^\~/,$HOME/,"` +# Set the default KDEDIRS to something sensible for a Debian system. +# +# This creates a default environment where: +# +# * packages installed from tarballs with a prefix of /usr/local work properly. +# +# * packages installed from tarballs with a prefix of /usr/local/kde work +# properly. +# +# * system administrators can to do things like add local system-wide .desktop +# files in /usr/local/share/applnk, etc. +# +# * I don't see several messages per week on some mailing list explaining that +# someone installed a 3rd party app but it has no icons/menu entry/etc. =) +# +# Of course, if someone has already setup KDEDIRS a certain way, this will not +# change that. + +test -z "$KDEDIRS" -a -z "$KDEDIR" \ +&& export KDEDIRS=/usr/local:/usr/local/kde:/usr + # Activate the kde font directories. # # There are 4 directories that may be used for supplying fonts for KDE.
