Hi!

I have created a /site/ directory on my system to share config between various machines. I use it to make sure all my boxes have some stuff from bashrc, environment variables, emacs config, git config etc in common. Even though I only have a desktop and a laptop that has a head, it would be nice to use the same thing for KDE stuff. I have a small konsole colorscheme that I'd created that should be on my machines, and then perhaps the themes that I got, they should behave the same.

Is there an easy way to do this with KDE/Plasma?

Could it be done by setting XDG_DATA_DIRS=/site/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS for example? Or XDG_CONFIG_DIRS or something like that?

KDE-based apps and desktop adhere to the Freedesktop Standard which defines the use of those XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS as well as corresponding XDG_*_HOME variables for such configurations.

So if I understand correctly, you'd want to update both the *_DIRS variables to include your /site/share directory as well as the *_HOME variables to indicate that it should write to the /site/share directory.

(alternatively, using defaults for those variables, you could make ~/.config and ~/.local links to corresponding directories in /site/share)

Great, thanks a lot! I'll try that!

Kjetil