From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 Description of problem: Bad: Due to a lack of existence of kdesupport as kde-2.2 package, $KDEDIR environment variable is not set any more. This leads to not finding the font dirs of KDE in startkde for example. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo $KDEDIR Actual Results: There is no output Expected Results: Output: /usr Additional info: THIS BUG IS FOR kdelibs-2.2!!!
KDEDIR is deprecated (it's KDE 1.x cruft actually). Its usage in startkde is a bug.
I agree that quite a few scripts from 3rd party applications still use $KDEDIR though. I'll add it back for legacy compatibility, but it'll probably disappear for KDE 3.0.
It shoud stay as long as any base package (those, witch are released as a "new kde version", AND probably also koffice, with I doens't see longer included in the packages for kde-2.2) does require it. So, if for example the default startkde-script provided by the kde team itself uses the $KDEDIR (or in startkde-2.2 also the $KDEDIRS) variable, it should been set for the environment.
Fixed in kdelibs-2.2-7