Linux installation

[Bob Warren]

Rishi Viner wrote:
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On Gentoo (with KDE), I get:

/home/rishi/Desktop/
/home/rishi/
/usr/
/tmp/
/home/rishi/
failed
failed
failed

in my sys_info.txt
Under KDE it looks like you have trouble with FontsFolder, 
StartupItemsFolder,
TrashFolder.

I'm fairly sure the normal fonts location is: /usr/share/fonts/

My startup items folder is at: /home/rishi/.kde/Autostart/

My trash is at /home/rishi/Desktop/trash.desktop which is a shortcut 
with URL=trash:/
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Thanks Rishi!

Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about the success of these 
functions, since they come from RealBasic. But at least it seems that RB 
knows the difference between what it knows and what it doesn't know. The 
first 5 paths are correct, and in the case of the last 3, the paths 
couldn't be deduced although they might exist.

Another thing to be remembered is that this standard set of functions is 
used on all platforms, including Windows, so for example, I would 
imagine that "StartupItemsFolder" is more applicable to Windows than to 
Linux. Before my RB trial for Windows ran out (today, in fact), I ran 
the module for Windows and it gave me all 8 paths correctly.

With the hundreds of Linux distros out there, all with slightly 
different characteristics, I would be surprised if anyone could do much 
better than this in deducing the not-quite-so-fundamental paths such as 
e.g. the trash.

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Rishi Viner wrote:
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might get more info on this as freedesktop.org?
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Great! Thanks again Rishi, I'll check it out.

Best regards,
Bob