16 Sep
2010
16 Sep
'10
7:02 p.m.
> My first usability test of Trinity was in a
virtual machine. Trinity
> loaded just fine --- but ignored all of my previous ~/.kde profile
> settings. Hey! What? :)
>
> Not to mention the evil bouncing mouse cursor! Okay, I can solve that
> irritant when I build the package.
>
> What happened with my desktop?
>
> First clue: Trinity is using ~/.kde3 rather than ~/.kde. Yet my $KDEHOME
> environment variable is set to ~/.kde. Hmm. Where is this being ignored
> or
> overridden?
>
> Yes, I can rename ~/.kde to ~/.kde3. But I should not have to. Trinity
> should honor my $KDEHOME variable.
>
> First suspect: /usr/bin/startkde. I have some proposed patches for
> startkde, but that can wait for another thread. Nope. Not the culprit
> because I exited KDE, restored my ~/.kde profile, renamed the new
> startkde, and restored my old startkde. When I started X, Trinity again
> created ~/.kde3 and ignored my ~/.kde profile and $KDEHOME variable..
>
> What is hard-coded to create and use ~/.kde3? A .desktop file somewhere?
~/.kde3 is set in kstandarddirs.cpp and also in startkde. startkde now
has a fix to honor the $KDEHOME environment variable, and
kstandarddirs.cpp has always had code to honor it.
>
> Been a looooong time since I wandered around with the KDE startup
> sequence.
>
> Second, there are folder icons on the desktop for every directory in the
> root level. They are not device icons and I don't know how to disable
> that
> effect. I also have lost my previous desktop icons.
<snip>
I am looking into this one, which fortunately I am still able to replicate
on the older machine I mentioned earlier. Something is messed up with the
XDG desktop paths; on my system "kde-config --userpath desktop" returns
"/".
Tim