Reusing one's KDE2 directory on KDE3 is somewhat annoying on 7.3 because SuSE made all the .desktop files execute files in /opt/kde2/bin instead of just putting the executable's name (/opt/kde2/bin/kmines vs. kmines). This makes the older KDE2 version of various apps run instead of the newer KDE3 version. I'm in the middle of getting rid of all the prefixes right now. I wish SuSE had done this the right way. I can't remember which app I can use to do a multi-file search and replace, though, so I'm having to resort to using my Windoze HTML editor which won't save in Un*x format :( On May 19, 2002 06:02 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* PR (prooroa@wanadoo.nl) [020519 14:33]: ::you make it sound hopeful again. ::I now have kdm with a kde3 and kde2 option but ::get a weird dcop message when I try to run kde2 :: ::what is the reason for using tar instead of copying the links?
Yes, it's keeps the file structure together and you'll get all the links.
So cd into .kde2/share and type this ..
tar cvf applnk.tar applnk
Then you can move the .tar file into .kde/share and just untar it. It will copy the stuff that's in the tarfile into the applnk directory exactly where it should be. It's just a nice way to make sure you get everything and it's in the right place.
The reason your getting the dcop error is that KDE3 is now specified. I would try something like this.
Put this in your .bashrc (it's the default shell..unless you changed it).
KDE2DIR=/opt/kde2/ QT2DIR=/usr/lib/qt2 export KDE2DIR QT2DIR
KDE3DIR=/opt/kde3/ QT3DIR=/usr/lib/qt3 export KDE3DIR QT3DIR
Understand I don't know if this will work ..it's a guess. Someone else may be better equipped to help you with this. I started running KDE3 the day it was released as stable. It's got it quirks..but I haven't tried to use KDE2 since..just the apps from KDE2 which work pretty good.
-=Ben
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