Bug 1389965

Summary: Possible bug in startkde script
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Peter Trenholme <PTrenholme>
Component: plasma-workspaceAssignee: KDE SIG <kde-sig>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 24CC: jgrulich, jreznik, kde-sig, ltinkl, me, rdieter, rnovacek, ry, smparrish, than
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Description Peter Trenholme 2016-10-30 01:11:23 UTC 
Description of problem: I think that line 163 in the startkde script is sourcing the .../env/ scripts in the incorrect order.

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Line 163 currently reads:
qtpaths --paths ConfigLocation | tr ':' '\n' | sed 's,$,/plasma-workspace,g'

The paths so generate are source in a loop: 

for prefix in `echo $scriptpath`; do
  for file in "$prefix"/env/*.sh; do
    test -r "$file" && . "$file" || true
  done
done

But, on my system, the line at 163 produces:
$ qtpaths --paths ConfigLocation | tr ':' '\n' | sed 's,$,/plasma-workspace,g'
/home/Peter/.config/plasma-workspace
/etc/xdg/plasma-workspace

Thus any default setting in the /etc/xdg/ file will override any setting in my local configuration file.

If the order in which the qtpaths command returns the files is fixed, then changing line 163 to read:

qtpaths --paths ConfigLocation | tr ':' '\n' | tac - | sed 's,$,/plasma-workspace,g'

would, I believe, fix the problem.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2016-10-31 11:49:05 UTC 
Yes, that's by design, NOTABUG

If you want different behavior, write your source'd env files to accomodate it.
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2016-10-31 11:50:29 UTC 
Or more specifically, if you want to get upstream involved to convince them to change behavior (@bugs.kde.org or mailing lists or whatever0, that's fine too, but we won't change it downstream in fedora only.