In <200904161610.57353....@alaxarxa.net>, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: >I don't want to install kde3 and kde4 in the same box. > >However, I administrate several boxes and I would like to have some box > with unstable (kde 4.2.2) and stable (kde 3.5.9) using the same /home for > the users (ergo .kde) > >So, is this possible?
Not really. But, this really shouldn't be much of an issue. Sharing a .kde directory between KDE 3.4 and KDE 3.5 wasn't completely supported. Newer versions of the applications may have moved configuration options and while they will read the old versions they may write out the configuration incompatibly. In practice, sharing a .kde directory between KDE 3.4 and KDE 3.5 only caused a few errors. In theory sharing a .kde directory between KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.2 will probably cause more. I suggest that you set KDE_HOME in your global environment on the different systems. Using "~/.kde<major>.<minor>", for example .kde3.5 and .kde4.2, should be sufficient. I think KDE_HOME is the only thing that needs to be set, but you might want to double-check me. I still have a .kde3.4 and a .kde3.5 (.kde is a symlink) from doing something similar for different reasons. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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