Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (85 mails)

[Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 12 of September 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11. September 2007, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > 5) we could probably add 'kde3' and 'kde4' scripts that do the proper
> > setup and let one easily run the selected version of KDE apps
>
> The upstream idea was to install a binary that evaluates the desktop
> environment (e.g. by reading the x property on the x server) and then
> launches the "right" version of the binary, by changing $PATH and
> XDG_DATA_DIRS accordingly (and appending 3 or 4 suffix). this is the
> solution we have to implement for upstream anyway for distributions that
> have both kde3 and kde4`s kprinter in path, and it would fix the issue for
> us as well.

 I meant something different with 5) - wanting to run a specific version. So 
if I wanted to run KDE4 version of Konsole, I'd just run "kde4 konsole".

 What you describe looks ok to me, but since we have the advantage of 
different prefixes I think for 10.3 it should be enough to have KDE3 in the 
path first unless the user is in KDE4.

> IMHO a last resort would be /opt/kde3/bin in front of the
> path/xdg_data_dirs based on a sysconfig key, but that doesn`t really fix
> the kdesu case.

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Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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