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Re: Plasma 5: no more KDEHOME?



Am Montag, 26. Februar 2018, 14:35:05 CET schrieb Joao Roscoe:
> Nice, good to know.
> 
> Now, I suppose that in a few years, We'll be moving forward to a newer
> version of our distro of choice. Then we'll (again) face a transitory
> situation in which users will be able to login to different systems with
> different versions of KDE installed, what could result in some trouble, due
> to different versions of the desktop environment and applications messing
> around with configuration files. In the past, we dealt with this by
> tweaking kde so that it would use "~/.kde.<distro_version> to store kde
> related data, instead of plainly "~/.kde". So, looking at
> https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html,
> from now on, I guess I could have the same result by tweaking the systems
> to replace "~/.config" wit "~/.config.<distro_version>".

Don't forget about (at least, maybe there's more) ~/.cache/ and ~/.local/

> Is that right?
> 
> Best regards,
> Joao
> 
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> wrote:
> > On 2018-02-22, Joao Roscoe <joao.roscoe@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > How could I avoid conflicts between different versions of kde from now
> > 
> > on?
> > 
> > all kde and qt applications follows the XDG spec for this, and the
> > related set of environment variables.
> > 
> > /Sune

Best,

	Christian

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