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On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 23:16 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> Howdy all, |
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Hey, |
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> Diego (Flameeyes) brings about a good point from bug #95867 [1]. An |
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> issue that's actually affected me at work with something I'm working on, |
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> so I was the perfect person to ask to press this forward. |
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> Basically XDG_DATA_DIRS is where FreeDesktop has standardized the |
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> location of icons, desktop entries, directory entries and other misc |
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> data. In Gentoo we've hard coded it to |
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> XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share however it's always |
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> sub-optimal to hardcode different settings. |
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> Diego (sorry, don't have anything but English keys) has proposed is |
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> creating the ability for XDG_DATA_DIRS to be set via /etc/env.d entries |
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> which sounds like the best plan. He's willing to make the change and I'm |
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> all for it. Basically this is a request for comments on the idea. Anyone |
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> opposed? If not then the change will happen 3 days from this e-mail. |
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I'm all for that. |
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See also bug about KDE applications not showing up in GNOME menus |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139697 |
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This would probably get solved then as well, as /usr/kde/3.5/share would |
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be included in XDG_DATA_DIRS in Gnome sessions as well. Currently there |
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is no XDG_DATA_DIRS set at all in a Gnome session, so just the |
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default /usr/share is looked at, and setting it in startup scripts |
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sounds just wrong. |
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I'm not sure how you'd approach this when multiple kde versions are |
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present (like /usr/kde/3.4 AND /usr/kde/3.5 in the past), in what order |
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they'd be there, how you ensure said order and so on. In Gnome land |
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there is no such SLOTting. |
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> Here's a summary of what Diego sent me: |
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> Basically, it's a matter of defining XDG_DATA_DIRS to |
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> /usr/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share for the users, not difficult, but I think |
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> what happens if a package in /opt wants to have its share directory |
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> there too (would be proper, rather than polluting /usr/share space). |
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> The quick solution is to set XDG_DATA_DIRS in COLON_SEPARATED, in every |
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> env.d file that defines XDG_DATA_DIRS to be safe. I can do it, but it |
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> needs to be announced first at least. |
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> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95867 |
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> Oh and just to stir the US College Football pot.... Buckeyes suck! Go |
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> Gators! |
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This gives me some bad memories with certain spyware. And I don't get |
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what you americans find in American Football. Go-go soccer! (football |
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really, but I can't say that when americans are reading :( ) |
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How's that for stirring up the pot? :p |
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-- |
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Mart Raudsepp |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: leio@g.o |
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Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio |
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