[tuxracer-devel] Re: Tux Racer with GUI-Installer

[Jasmin P. <jf...@mu...>]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Steffen Sobiech wrote:

> Am Mon, 06 Mdr 2000 schrieben Sie:
> >
> > Look good.  It worked on my system (a heavily patched RedHat 6.0 with
> > KDE 1.1.1), though there were a few small problems: it gives an error
> > message "ERROR: KFM is not running", even though it is.  It also won't
> > let me change the installation directory (though perhaps that's on
> > purpose so that you don't have to write a ~/.tuxracer file).
>
> Yes, it was done on purpose...
> The problem is that the .tuxracer file needs to be in every user's
> home directory.  Something like this would work with system wide
> defaults. Maybe I can have KDE start a script instead of the actual
> binary. That script could create a new ~/.tuxracer file if it doesn't
> already exist...

Ah yes, I hadn't thought about that.  I think I'll add an (optional)
system-wide configuration file (/etc/tuxracer) where default values would be
obtained.

> > Thanks a lot! I'll place it on the web site today.
> Thank you, too!

You're very welcome.

Cheers,
Jasmin

P.S. Taking this back on-list...