Re: Coexistence betwend kde3 and kde4
On Thursday 16 April 2009 18:16:21 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 200904161610.57353.leo@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.
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