KDE_FULL_SESSION and version detection

[Lubos Lunak]

On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:28, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On February 4, 2007, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  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.
>
> now that you've told me the wrong solution and approaches to current
> solutions, what would you think would be a suitable one?

a) do as you say
b) provide backwards compatibility for stuff like kfmclient so that this 
doesn't matter
c) KDE_SESSION_VERSION

 The last one seems to be the best, on average.

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