Re: [Gnash-dev] install vs install-plugins && klash

[Rob Savoye]

strk wrote:

> Yes, for the short term.
> For the long term, since I don't agree on the default install dir,
> I'd require a specific ./configure switch to enable install of the plugins
> (ie: no default, only installed if you pick an install among prefix|system|user)

  If you research how other KDE applications install their files, the 
current way, installing in $HOME/.kde *is* the correct way for end users 
trying to get a working Kparts plugin. The only person that would want 
to install in the system directories is root. To do this now does 
require multiple configure options to Gnash, so having a single option 
to override the default to make this easier for package maintainers 
(--enable-kparts-system) is fine.

  Installing the plugins in $prefix is completely wrong, as neither the 
NPPAI nor the KParts style plugins will actually load that way. We could 
install the plugins parts in $prefix, but we'd still be stuck making 
symbolic links to either $HOME/.kde or system directories to make the 
plugins actually work.

        - rob -