On Friday 26 October 2012 17:25:20 Kevin Kofler wrote: > On Friday 26 October 2012 at 07:00:13, Robby Workman wrote: > > Good question, and it makes me wonder why we've always just "worked > > around" > > it instead of sending patches to do it correctly. I'm not in a position > > to > > look farther into that right now, so I'll just say that it would seem > > better for KDE stuff to use /usr/share/config/$whatever/ for packaged > > defaults (IOW, *exactly* what you currently do) with support for > > overriding those defaults in $sysconfdir/kde/$whatever/ > > Yes, and in fact that's how we ship things in Fedora (KDM being a special > case because it doesn't use KConfig). The KConfig search path in Fedora is: > 1. ~/.kde/share/config/ – user settings > 2. /etc/kde/ – systemwide settings > 3. /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/ – Fedora > kde-settings 4. /usr/share/config/ – upstream shipped settings > > The way we implement this is that: > > * to implement 3, we ship an /etc/kde4rc (and kderc for legacy kdelibs3 > apps) with the following settings: > > [Directories] > kioskAdmin=root: > profileDirsPrefix=/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/ > > [Directories-default] > prefixes=/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/ > > * to implement 2, we ship a patch to kdelibs: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kdelibs.git/tree/kdelibs-4.6.90-kstandard > dirs.patch (second hunk, the first one is one of the changes required to > make LIBEXEC_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/libexec/kde4 work properly) > The patch is required because we need this to have priority over profiles, > which isn't supported in the upstream kdelibs code. > > I think the setup we use in Fedora is optimal (and actually I wish all > configuration systems would work that way, not just KConfig ;-) ).
In KDE Frameworks 5, you'll be able to just export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to contain the directories numbered 2, 3, 4 from your list (and XDG_CONFIG_HOME for number 1, which moves to ~/.config). Hopefully no custom patch nor global kderc required anymore. -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
