> Upon k3b start, the only error received during > startup check was: > > <quote> > System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 > Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to > encode filenames) is set > to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this has been > done intentionally. > Most likely the locale is not set at all. An invalid setting > will result in > problems when creating data projects. > Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the > LC_* environment > variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools > take care of this. > </quote> > > I know about a year ago, there was considerable > discussion about where these > variables should be set. Looking, it seems that some distros > take care of this > with XDG config which can be set separately between gnome > XDG and kde XDG. Does > TDE need to look at setting these? I don't know the answer. > I do know SuSE sets > them and Arch doesn't. So there is a variation between the > way this is handled > distro to distro. May not be a bad thing to do in the TDE > config if these > setting matter. The starttde script makes a feeble effort to set the XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS variables. Big picture, I am not in favor of tinkering further. This is mostly a distro issue, although I am curious how you resolve the k3b error on your system. Does k3b still burn despite the previously reported hal configure warnings? Darrell