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Bug 29

Summary:	kmail won't open without a .kde folder
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	paulatgm
Component:	tdenetwork	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bugwatch, darrella
Priority:	P5
Version:	3.5.10
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description paulatgm 2009-01-02 13:43:07 CST

We're using .kde3 for all our kde3 application configs.  I do not have kde4 installed at all, so do not have a .kde directory.

When I try to start contact, it fails and a popup show that kmail can't open the folder .kde/share/apps/kmail.

Comment 1 Timothy Pearson 2009-01-02 18:57:00 CST

Confirmed.  It looks like all of the KDE PIM applications are ignoring the KDEHOME environment variable.

Comment 2 Timothy Pearson 2009-01-03 15:07:11 CST

After much debugging, I found the answer.
1. You are running an upgraded system (not a clean installation of KDE3 from scratch)
2. kmail, knotes, and a few other applications leave full paths (!) in their configuration files
3. kmail (or other app) has been run at least once under the old ~/.kde based installation

The fix is easy: just open ~/.kde3/share/config/kmailrc and change the path that contains .kde to contain .kde3 instead.

If you like, you can do a search in the ~/.kde3/share/config directory for all text files containing .kde/ and it will show all the configuration files that have this problem.

Comment 3 paulatgm 2009-01-03 19:14:36 CST

Sorry I had to file a bug on this, but maybe someone else will learn from it.

You're correct.  Here's the offending line from .kde/share/config/kmailrc:

folders[$e]=$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail

But, actually, I did not upgrade.  Instead, I copied my hardy kde3 ~/.kde to the intrepid ~/.kde3.  I don't actually use kmail, but it must have set up a config some time ago in hardy.

FWIW, They can be found with:

$ grep -ir '\.kde/' .kde3/

and fixed with:

$ perl -i -p -e 's/\.kde\//\.kde3\//g;' .kde3/share/config/kmailrc

regards,