It seems like there is no KDEHOME variable set in Gentoo. I emerged amarok (A KDE media player), and had a problem about the playlist not being saved when exiting, I had to load it every time I started amarok. When asking about this in the amarok IRC-channel, they asked me to check whether KDEHOME was set correctly. When I saw it wasn't, they asked me to set it to /home/username/.kde and try again. This time the playlist was saved as it should be. Apparently several Gentoo users have had the same problem. So, to solve this issue, a KDEHOME should be set somehow Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start amarok 2. Load a playlist 3. Shutdown amarok 4. Start amarok again, playlist is gone Actual Results: The playlist is not saved between amarok sessions Expected Results: The playlist should be saved between amarok session, which is done by setting KDEHOME to /home/username/.kde Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://gentoo.inode.at/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa amd apm arts avantgo avi berkdb cddb cdr crypt cups curl directfb dvd dvdr encode esd faad fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad matroska mcurses mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 ncurses nls nvidia offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl php png pnp ppds pthreads python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang sox spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex theora tiff transcode truetype unicode usb x86 xine xinerama xml2 xosd xv xvid zlib"
Oops, my mistake. Not KDEDIR, KDEHOME
looks like the line that sets it is commented out in startkde. not sure why it's commented out...
In startkde there's also: # The user's personal KDE directory is usually ~/.kde, but this setting # may be overridden by setting KDEHOME. So it seems that setting KDEHOME is optional (just to override the default) and amarok should not assume it is set (and use ~/.kde if not).
no comment on this in a while - let's assume the amarok devs fixed this?
