On Thursday 16 April 2009 18:16:21 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > 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. Or crash. > > 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 am doing it this way. Might also need to set PATHs to favor the target KDE version as well. > > I still have a .kde3.4 and a .kde3.5 (.kde is a symlink) from doing > something similar for different reasons. Name your poison. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
