desktop environment specific XDG_CONFIG_DIRS

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Fri Jul 20 16:39:29 PDT 2007


Lei Zhang wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to add a system-wide menu item to both Gnome and KDE using
>xdg-desktop-menu. I have been testing this on a variety of Linux
>distros. On Fedora 7, I noticed if I installed my program from Gnome,
>it shows up in both Gnome and KDE, but if I install it from KDE, it
>only shows up in KDE.

Why are you installing it in different places in the first place?

Ignore $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and $XDG_DATA_DIRS when installing. Install to the 
default locations and be done with it.

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