Hi

Anyway, since macports throws everything in $prefix, I guess it's just OK that 
I stick with the script

Thanks

yves


Le 2012-04-21 à 11:11, [email protected] a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> You're raising an interesting point here. From what I wonder, these path are 
> *not* meant to search for WindowMaker's shared data, but instead *other* 
> application's data (like icons, ...)
> 
> Changing the path to $prefix work because the usual prefix is "/usr" for 
> every app in a distro, but in the current case it would break the concept, 
> for instance is someone wanted to install wm in "/opt/wmaker": it would then 
> not be able to use other application's icons, and the likes.
> 
> But I guess there should be a better way for those path anyway, knowing that 
> "/usr/X11R6" seem to be deprecated now, "/opt/kde2" should be also 
> "/opt/kde3" and "/opt/kde4" (and maybe "/opt/kde5", so this time we'll be 
> ready!).
> However I have no idea there at current time...
> 
> Regards,
> Christophe.
> 
> 
> ----- Yves de Champlain <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> Hi
>> 
>> While being there, there are many hardcoded paths in the following files :
>> 
>> WindowMaker/*menu*
>> WindowMaker/Defaults/WindowMaker.in
>> WPrefs.app/Menu.c
>> WPrefs.app/Paths.c
>> 
>> I have always dealt with these in the Portfile with a sed script :
>> 
>> "s|/usr/X11R6/share|${prefix}/share|g" $i
>> "s|/usr/share|${prefix}/share|g" $i
>> "s|/usr/local/share|${prefix}/share|g" $i
>> "s|/opt/share|${prefix}/share|g" $i
>> "s|/opt/kde2/share|${prefix}/share|g" $i
>> 
>> but I'm wondering if it would not be a good idea to have $prefix by default 
>> everywhere.
>> 
>> Thanks for making WindowMaker the nicest WM around
>> 
>> yves
>> 
>> 
>> 
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