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    Wrong directories in environment variables

    Hi all, I was wondering why my free disk space has reduced so much and after an investigation I found that there is a folder, in my home directory, that has lots of unuseful GB inside.

    I'm using KDE-nightly from Project Neon.

    The folder is .kde-neon/tmp

    Shouldn't it be linked to /tmp ?

    In my environment variables there is
    KDETMP=/home/madmage/.kde-neon//tmp
    That I think can be the problem: the double slash make me think that this variable shouldn't be prefixed by the /home/madmage/.kde-neon directory... am I wrong?
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    Re: Wrong directories in environment variables

    Been a while since I used kde-neon, but I think it uses it's own tmp directory by design (to keep the installation completely separate from your "normal" kde installation).

    It's possible it isn't "kept clean" by the system like /tmp.
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      Re: Wrong directories in environment variables

      Originally posted by kubicle
      Been a while since I used kde-neon, but I think it uses it's own tmp directory by design (to keep the installation completely separate from your "normal" kde installation).

      It's possible it isn't "kept clean" by the system like /tmp.
      thanks for you answer...

      of course it isn't kept clean: /tmp is for this kind of functionalities (and, moreover, I know that something temporary is in /tmp... how can I be aware that something is writing temporary things in whatever other place in my filesystem?)

      anyway: is there a forum/bug tracker of project-neon where developers answer? I could'nt find any
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        Re: Wrong directories in environment variables

        Is there a reason for you still to use the nightly builds given that packages are now available for kde4.2 in intrepid here

        http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2

        That would certainly solve your problem for the future.
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          Re: Wrong directories in environment variables

          Just for completeness I would like to point out that the double slash in a path (//) makes no difference at all. I just means that in a script somone added /tmp /home/madmage/.kde-neon/, hence double slash. Less than perfect but the system does not care at all.
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            Re: Wrong directories in environment variables

            Originally posted by The Liquidator
            Is there a reason for you still to use the nightly builds given that packages are now available for kde4.2 in intrepid here

            http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2

            That would certainly solve your problem for the future.
            They are available in Intrepid as backports, I was just look at the new KDE 4.2, but it to enable the whole backports repository on my PC seems to make things unstable, isn't it?
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              Re: Wrong directories in environment variables

              Originally posted by madmage
              of course it isn't kept clean
              It shouldn't be hard to include a script in kde-neon to keep the tmp clean.

              Originally posted by The Liquidator
              Is there a reason for you still to use the nightly builds given that packages are now available for kde4.2 in intrepid here
              Doesn't kde-neon build from trunk so it's actually a KDE4.3 pre-alpha preview now?
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                Re: Wrong directories in environment variables

                Originally posted by kubicle
                Originally posted by madmage
                of course it isn't kept clean
                It shouldn't be hard to include a script in kde-neon to keep the tmp clean.
                I think the best solution is to make it point to /tmp directory, that is there for this reason. I also think that it is the initial idea of KDE developers, since, for example, it creates a kde-username subdirectory.

                Originally posted by kubicle
                Originally posted by The Liquidator
                Is there a reason for you still to use the nightly builds given that packages are now available for kde4.2 in intrepid here
                Doesn't kde-neon build from trunk so it's actually a KDE4.3 pre-alpha preview now?
                So again: where can we talk with project-neon developers? :-)
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                  Re: Wrong directories in environment variables

                  Originally posted by madmage
                  I think the best solution is to make it point to /tmp directory, that is there for this reason. I also think that it is the initial idea of KDE developers, since, for example, it creates a kde-username subdirectory.
                  Then your regular kde installation and kde-nightly would be using the same tmp directories for their data, I'm not sure that's such a good idea.

                  So again: where can we talk with project-neon developers? :-)
                  Perhaps the mailing list (or irc channel) mentioned here:
                  http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/User:Apac..._Neon/KDE/Info
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