KDE_FULL_SESSION and version detection

[Lubos Lunak]

On Sunday 04 February 2007 17:48, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi all...
>
> we need a way to differentiate a KDE4 session from a KDE3 session at
> runtime. this is useful for, for instance, xdg-utils scripts.
>
> a thought that occurred to me is including a version string in
> KDE_FULL_SESSION rather that just setting it to 'true'. simply looking for
> kde4-config may not be (well, is not) sufficient. thoughts?

 There's bound to be somebody[*] silly enough to 
write 'test "$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = "true"' instead of 
simply 'test -n "$KDE_FULL_SESSION"', so the question is whether we care.

 Also, doing this would mean asserting that we don't care about even basic 
KDE3 vs KDE4 backwards compatibility.

[*] xdg-utils, ironically.

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