On Wednesday, 2009-11-18, James Tyrer wrote: > Kevin Krammer wrote: > > yes, /usr/local/share:/usr/share should be the default for XDG_DATA_DIRS > > if not set to anything else. > > Since you wrote "had to add": did you have to set to something else > > before? > > Yes, I have KDE-4 installed in its own directory (/usr/KDE-4). So, I > set XDG_DATA_DIRS to /usr/KDE-4/share). Apparently, that resulted in > KDE-4 no longer using the default (/usr/share). Actually, I have some > other things (Adobe reader & Sun JDK) in that path so it still would > have been a problem if KDE-4 was installed in /usr. It has very little to do where KDE is installed to. XDG_DATA_DIRS is what list of directories it is set to, unless it is empty because then it defaults to /usr/local/share:/usr/share Similar for XDG_CONFIG_DIRS which defaults to /etc/xdg, again if the variable is not set or empty. > >> And now they are there without adding > >> them. But, I can't add them to the Panel. > > > > Hmm, works for me using drag&drop onto an unlocked panel. Even moved > > applets aside to make space. Also works to drop on the quick launch > > applet. > > Where are the 'desktop' files for your X utilities? Mine are in > /usr/share/applnk/Utilities/XUtilities/. Don't know how they originally > got there. I have a path /usr/share/applnk/Utilities, no subdirectories. A couple of really old files, probably from an earlier KDE3 install or still installed KDE3 packages. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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