Bug 52502 – Skeleton KDE config not installed by startkde

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Bug 52502 - Skeleton KDE config not installed by startkde

Summary:	Skeleton KDE config not installed by startkde

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kdebase (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Ngo Than
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2001-08-24 09:27 EDT by Dave Shield
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:36 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-04-05 16:11:47 EDT
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Description Dave Shield 2001-08-24 09:27:48 EDT

Description of Problem:

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  2.1.1

How Reproducible:
  Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new account - with no .kde directory
2. Populate /etc/skel/.kde/
3. Log in as the new user

Actual Results:
   startkde creates .kde/share/config and sets up
selected files within it (emaildefaults and font
settings in kdeglobals, konquerorrc & kdesktoprc).
But the contents of /etc/skel/.kde aren't copied across.

Expected Results:
   The full contents of /etc/skel/.kde ought to be
installed for the new user.

Additional Information:
   /usr/bin/startkde creates .kde/share/config (line 78) *before*
checking whether to copy across /etc/skel/.kde (lines 90-92)
The second check will then automatically fail.

Creating the config directory ought to be done after copying the
template .kde (but before checking for the emaildefaults file)

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-24 09:40:09 EDT

This is fixed in the current version.

Comment 2 Dave Shield 2002-06-19 05:51:58 EDT

I've just installed RedHat Linux 7.3, and the same problem is still present.
$HOME/.kde is created (line 44 of startkde) *before* checking whether to
copy across /etc/skel/.kde (lines 56-58).  So this later test always fails,
and the skeleton config is never installed.

The "mkdir -p $HOME/.kde/share/config" needs to be moved to come after
the installation of /etc/skel/.kde.   I've tested this, and it does fix
the problem.

Comment 3 Ngo Than 2004-04-05 16:11:47 EDT

it's fixed in current release

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