[plug] KDE on Mandrake some questions

[Innis Cunningham]

Thanks Craig

  Craig Ringer writes
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>Innis Cunningham wrote:
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>>I was under the impression(mistakenly)that KDE had its own directory
>>somewhere.I was just trying to have a look to see what files were
>>about.
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>That depends on how it's installed.
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>On most distros, KDE is installed according to the filesystem heirachy 
>standard as a part of the system, putting it in /usr/share, /usr/bin, etc 
>etc etc. Sometimes it'll be in /opt (as pointed out by Rob Davies), 
>especially if you use third party packages for KDE. If you install it with 
>Konstruct, it'll usually go in $HOME/kde-$KDE_VERSION . It's per-user 
>configuration/settings files generally get put in $HOME/.kde. Parts of KDE 
>can even be put all over the place and listed in the KDEDIRS environment 
>variable (eg if you install a 3rd-party KDE app in /usr/local).
>
>Because of all this, it'd be important to know what exactly you're trying 
>to find. If you're looking for the kde binaries, type "which kdeinit" and 
>that'll point you to where the core KDE binaries are installed if they're 
>on your PATH.

There was nothing specific that I was looking for just could not
find anything much pertaining to KDE on my system.But reading
what you and others have written the answer seems to be pretty
much "all over the place"depending on how you installed KDE in
the first place

Thanks again for the advice.
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>--
>Craig Ringer

Cheers
Innis