On Saturday 21 January 2012 18:21:14 Oliver Burger wrote : > Hi, > > while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about > those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: > /tmp/ > /var/tmp/ > ~/tmp/ (one for every user) > > Now I can understand the reason behind having the user's tmp > separately, but why do we have two system wide separate tmp > directories? > This get's even more complicated by the fact that there are symbolic > links in .kde4/ to both: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli 21 Okt 7 10:34 cache-beteigeuze.oli-home -> > /var/tmp/kdecache-oli/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli 16 Okt 7 10:34 socket-beteigeuze.oli-home -> > /tmp/ksocket-oli/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli 12 Okt 7 10:34 tmp-beteigeuze.oli-home -> > /tmp/kde-oli/ > > Can't we do something about that? Probably in fact it simply follow http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/KDE_Filesystem_Hierarchy.
However i don't know if it's wise to setup the same path for thoses variables (it's possible). Regards, -- Balcaen John Jabber-id: mik...@jabber.littleboboy.net