Bug 300657

Summary:	KDE4 is before KDE3 in $PATH
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Bernhard Walle <bwalle>
Component:	KDE3	Assignee:	Lubos Lunak <llunak>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P2 - High	CC:	roger.larsson
Version:	Alpha 2
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Bernhard Walle 2007-08-15 14:36:16 UTC

When using another windowmanager, it's often desirable to run KDE programs. For example kcontrol to change the default browser for KDE applications. However, /usr/bin/ is before /opt/kde3 in the $PATH. I know that kde3-session changes this for KDE 3 sessions, however, other window managers are still affected.

Cannot /opt/kde3/bin/ put before /usr/bin in $PATH for all window managers *except* KDE4? Or KDE4 not installed per default?

Comment 1 Dirk Mueller 2007-08-23 12:29:51 UTC

this is a bugreport in result of the gdm + xdg path issue, right?

changing the path doesn't change anything for most of the users, because the xdg path counts.

Comment 2 Bernhard Walle 2007-08-23 12:33:18 UTC

Not really. For example I need to use kcontrol to change the default browser for KDE applications. I start "kcontrol" from command line, so xdg path doesn't count.

Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2007-09-02 09:01:03 UTC

*** Bug 306617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Stephan Binner 2007-09-18 21:54:00 UTC

Set to ASSIGNED by reporter.

Comment 5 Dirk Mueller 2007-09-24 09:29:08 UTC

is a wontfix for 10.3 though due to the danger of regressions.

Comment 6 Roger Larsson 2007-10-26 08:07:19 UTC

For future - when KDE5 beta shows up, where will you place it?
As KDE4 is now in /usr/bin it won't be possible to place it there...
What about /opt/kde5?

This would have been the right way this time too.
Never place a beta in /usr/bin expecially when there is released code placed elsewere...

Comment 7 Lubos Lunak 2008-04-03 12:22:35 UTC

This depends on whether KDE4 will be the default in 11.0 or not, so far it is, so that would mean WONTFIX for 11.0. Keeping open until 11.0 is released, just to make sure.

Comment 8 Lubos Lunak 2008-05-21 12:00:50 UTC

The user can choose either 3.5 or 4.0 in 11.0, so there's not really a default KDE, but let's keep this the way it is.