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Hi |
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With KDE-4.2.2 entering tree hopefully on Monday, I would like to fix general |
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XDG dirs related issues. |
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(copied from bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264647 with some |
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minor edits) : |
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According to XDG data specification[1], applications should append default |
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values for XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS only when those variables are not |
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defined. Currently Gentoo does not define those variables in env.d at all. |
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In typical scenario, when only one XDG-aware Desktop Environment is installed |
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- everything works fine, as is such scenario, DE that follows specification. |
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not having found XDG-dirs defined by system, appends default locations: |
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XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share" |
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XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/etc/xdg" |
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Unfortunately, when some DE tries to insufficiently define XDG-dirs, let's |
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say: |
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XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/kde/4.2/share" |
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it will most likely break every DE, resulting in default locations for desktop |
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files being inaccessible (in menu - missing applications from /usr/local and |
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/usr), because those default locations are not added implicitly. |
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This is related to bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204310 |
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The solution is to explicitly define standard XDG locations in env.d. |
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Example layout: |
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cat /etc/evn.d/01xdg-data-local |
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XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share" |
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COLON_SEPARATED="XDG_DATA_DIRS XDG_CONFIG_DIRS" |
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cat /etc/env.d/99xdg-data-base |
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XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share" |
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XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/etc/xdg" |
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In such case, to properly define DE specific XDG locations, it would be just |
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up to DE to specify: |
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cat /etc/env.d/43kdepaths-4.2 |
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[...] |
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XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/kde/4.2/share" |
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Currently kdelibs needs to explicitly append system-wide /usr/local/share and |
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/usr/share to XDG_DATA_DIRS, which is considered workaround. |
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Those env.d definitions would need to be either added to some existing xdg |
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related ebuild (xdg-utils ?) or in new ebuild, that would be added to RDEPEND |
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to any other XDG-aware DE. |
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Comments? Ideas? If it fits, it would be nice to do it quickly (to not dwell |
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in workarounds for too long). |
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It doesn't seem to create any regression - it may at most create duplicate |
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/usr/local/share and /usr/share XDG_DATA_DIRS entries for KDE users (as it |
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seems to be the only DE that appends anything to XDG_DATA_DIRS). |
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1. http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html |
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regards |
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MM |
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