KDE3 apps running in a KDE4-modified environment

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Wed Apr 18 16:27:59 BST 2007


On 18.04.07 17:05:16, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 18 April 2007 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > But KDEHOME is not about the prefix. In the last days and weeks there
> > was some effort to make sure kde4 and kde3 can live in the same prefix.
> > But how does this work if application A/kde4 installs a new config file
> > in the data dir which A/kde3 doesn't understand? Are there going to be
> > different data dirs for kde4 (like share/kde4/apps/<appname> or
> > share/apps/kde4/<appname>)?
> >
> How are they going to share bin/<appname> and bin/<appname>? 

Hmm, right. So I guess its either or for apps that don't want to add a
4-suffix. I guess the renaming is mainly needed for kdelibs/kdebase
then?

Andreas

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