KDE confirguration directories query

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 14/10/10 23:58, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>> Could someone please explain to me the difference between the usage of
>> the directories:
>>
>> /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config
>> and
>> /usr/share/config
>>
>> in terms of locating resource/configuration files for KDE.
>
> There are 4 directories configuration files are looked for by default in
> Fedora, in decreasing order of priority:
> 1. per user: ~/.kde/share/config (default location KDE writes settings to)
> 2. per system: /etc/kde (reserved for the local sysadmin, empty by default)
> 3. distro defaults: /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config
>     (installed by the kde-settings package, overrides some upstream defaults)
> 4. upstream defaults: /usr/share/config (used by upstream for some packages)
> If none of those 4 locations set a setting, the default hardcoded in the
> source code is used.
>
> So in short, the difference is that /usr/share/config contains settings
> provided by the KDE project (some apps use this mechanism instead of
> hardcoding the defaults in the code), /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-
> profile/default/share/config contains additional settings provided by us
> Fedora KDE packagers (often overriding a default from upstream).
>
> If you want to make your own systemwide settings, it is recommended not to
> touch the files under /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-
> profile/default/share/config nor /usr/share/config (which are owned by our
> packages and not marked as editable config files), but to put them into
> /etc/kde, which is reserved for that purpose.
>
> I hope this clears up everything.

Thank you so much Kevin. Thats really useful. I've been doing our 
customizations wrong all these years :-( but now I can do them right! :-)

Roderick
>
>          Kevin Kofler