Hi

Testing kiosk and external profiles, i fall down in some issue that i can't identify if this have the proper behavior

The fact is that we have a kde4rc profile defined, so our path would be

ourprofile/share/config -> /usr/share/config -> $HOME/.kde4/share/config

Usually, kconfig respects this hierarchy and looks first for resource on ourprofile/share/config

But KGlobal::config is not. Is looking only with $HOME/.kde4/share/config, then always returning default entry.

Easy example

Create an kde4rc file with this:

[Directories-default]

prefixes=/tmp/test

create a /tmp/test/share/config/kdeglobals with:

[General]

widgetStyle=plastique

Create a clean user with no .kde and start

Do a kcmshell4 style

You will see that plastique theme is selected, but you are using oxygen

Why ?

kdelibs/kdeui/kernel/kglobalsettings.cpp have this entry in

applyGUIStyle

<code snippet>

KConfigGroup pConfig (KGlobal::config(), "General");

QString styleStr = pConfig.readEntry("widgetStyle", defaultStyle);

</code snippet>

This readEntry is looking only for local config, not the hierarchy provided ofr kde4rc.

Any tips ?

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Helio Chissini de Castro

KDE Project

Brasil and South America Primary Contact