On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski's message of Tue Mar 09 03:09:34 > -0500 2010: > >> After setting XDG_DATA_DIRS to /opt/csw/share, evince started showing >> PDF documents. What is our way of handling it? Have the users >> configure the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable for themselves? Embed this >> setting in each application? Any other way? > > Does evince offer a configure option to specify the default search > path? That's how much of the xml stuff works.
I've checked for that and haven't found such option. I've found /usr/local/share paths hardcoded in update-mime-database.c, but I'm not sure whether changing it there would affect the place where evince looks for data. The base problem is that I don't know how exactly this resolution is working in evince. I've read the basedir spec[1], but it was somewhat unsatisfactory. It mentioned the default /etc/xdg and /usr/share, and mentioned the environment variables, but it didn't say anything about other means of supplying the information, nor did say that other ways do not or should not exist. [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
