So can I do this?
I have an svn account (i'm a kdegames guy), so I can put these simple
files and adjust kopetechatwindowsettings.kcfg accordingly.
Dmitry.
2007/8/3, Matt Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thursday 02 August 2007 11:17, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for finding this. :)
>
> Let's create a .desktop file that contains the name of the default style to
> use, name it something, find it, and then use that to get the default style
> to use rather than relying on something hard coded.
> --
> Matt
>
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