[KDE/Mac] KDE4/KF5 "cohabitation"

Jeremy Whiting jpwhiting at kde.org
Wed Jan 13 21:07:43 UTC 2016


Yeah, not expected to be. If they are that's a bonus I guess, but not expected.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:05 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday January 13 2016 10:53:49 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>
>> Yes exactly, once an application has been released based on Qt5/KF5 it
>> shouldn't be coinstallable with the same application that is
>> Qt4/kdelibs4 based. Most (and eventually all) kf5 based applications
>
> Shouldn't, or isn't expected to be?
>
>> any settings. Also both kdelibs4 based and kf5 based binaries, shared
>> data files etc would conflict if both were installed at once.
>
> The binaries are mostly not an issue under MacPorts, the shared files sometimes a bit more, like for icon files.
> But I currently have both Kate4 and Kate5, KDevelop4 and KDevelop5 installed, idem for Kompare and Konsole (the latter is basically unusable but because of issues in Qt).
>
> R.


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