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sorry to resurrect this thead, but reading the blog of Tomas (Slax's developer), I discovered that kde developers blame dbus for it, but really seems like a bug in qt that will be fixed probably in version 5.
BTW Tomas, unwillingly, patched dbus to solve it.
HOME
The system shall initialize this variable at the time of login to be a pathname of the user's home directory.
Quote:
shall
For an implementation that conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, describes a feature or behavior that is mandatory. An application can rely on the existence of the feature or behavior.
For an application or user, describes a behavior that is mandatory.
Qt expecting $HOME to be set seems in-line with the base standard.
a/dbus-1.4.20-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to set HOME properly to avoid a /.config directory. The fix is
a little ugly, but seems harmless enough (and is less ugly than /.config).
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