kde3 kde4 coinstallability take two

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday 22 October 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> > usr/bin/kstart
> > user application to start programs with weird args. Append 4 ?
>
> I guess not, since there might be user scripts out there that use it by
> name.
>
> First of all, is this runtime material or workspace? I.e., does it work
> with other WMs than kwin?
>
> Most of this application's options are related to the window placement, so
> how is it communicating that information to the Window Manager? If it's
> native WM hints, then either kstart would work just fine in either
> environment.
>
> If it's using DCOP/D-Bus, then distributions will need to replace this with
> a shell script that detects the running environment and execs the correct
> one. Meaning: you need to rename the KDE 3 one too.

From a quick look at the code I'd say it is using direct X11 communication 
with the window manager, so it should work with other window managers as well 
and there is probably no difference for a script if it calls the KDE3 or KDE4 
version.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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