On 14/10/10 23:58, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roderick Johnstone wrote: >> Could someone please explain to me the difference between the usage of >> the directories: >> >> /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config >> and >> /usr/share/config >> >> in terms of locating resource/configuration files for KDE. > > There are 4 directories configuration files are looked for by default in > Fedora, in decreasing order of priority: > 1. per user: ~/.kde/share/config (default location KDE writes settings to) > 2. per system: /etc/kde (reserved for the local sysadmin, empty by default) > 3. distro defaults: /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config > (installed by the kde-settings package, overrides some upstream defaults) > 4. upstream defaults: /usr/share/config (used by upstream for some packages) > If none of those 4 locations set a setting, the default hardcoded in the > source code is used. > > So in short, the difference is that /usr/share/config contains settings > provided by the KDE project (some apps use this mechanism instead of > hardcoding the defaults in the code), /usr/share/kde-settings/kde- > profile/default/share/config contains additional settings provided by us > Fedora KDE packagers (often overriding a default from upstream). > > If you want to make your own systemwide settings, it is recommended not to > touch the files under /usr/share/kde-settings/kde- > profile/default/share/config nor /usr/share/config (which are owned by our > packages and not marked as editable config files), but to put them into > /etc/kde, which is reserved for that purpose. > > I hope this clears up everything. Thank you so much Kevin. Thats really useful. I've been doing our customizations wrong all these years :-( but now I can do them right! :-) Roderick > > Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
