Hello, kopete devs! :-)
While trying to fix a bug that no chatwindow style is picked by default (until
it get's set explicitely), I tracked it to be wrong KStandardDirs usage
issue. Let me give you some details.
kopetechatwindowconfig.kcfg specifies that default style path is:
KStandardDirs::locate("appdata", "styles/Kopete")
and I found that this call returns an empty string even in case
when "styles/Kopete" directory exists (and it does).
Also I found that if I append a slash, i.e. try to locate "styles/Kopete/",
things magically start to work and KStandardDirs returns a valid path.
I asked about this issue on k-c-d and got reply from coolo (who mainains
KStandardDirs), that this class isn't supposed to be used to find DIRS - it's
supposed to be used to search for files.
He suggested to put some file in directory that needs to be found and then use
KStandardDirs::foundResourseDir() method.
This seems to be a valid solution and all others will be more or less hacks
around standard KStandardDirs usage IMO
Well, I writing this so you, the devs, can discuss what that file might look
like - will it be a dummy one, or perhaps there's some (meta-)info about
style that it can contain?
(for example, in kdegames we use .desktop file to hold various
svgtheme-related settings for our games aka number of animation frames,
author's name & email etc etc)
Perhaps you see the other way around the problem (not putting file in each
style's dir), but then we should go away from using KStandardDirs I guess.
Me and Will agreed that I should write here so you can discuss all these
things.
Btw, thanks Will, for asking my perhaps silly kopete-related questions :-)
Cheers,
Dmitry.
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