kde5 in [app .desktop file install] path

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Wed Feb 12 10:54:13 UTC 2014


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:29:24PM +0000, Alex Merry wrote:
> > Thinking out loud: with the current efforts in making things co-installable, I 
> > wonder... it'll make .desktop files clash between kde4 and kde5.
> > Already solved for kdelibs4 (by renaming the two desktop files in KF5's kio),
> > though, so maybe we're fine, if co-installing apps isn't wanted.
> > Jonathan: it's not, right?
> 
> Well, if you want to co-install apps, you need to rename the binaries,
> so renaming the desktop files at the same time is fine.  But, in
> practice, I doubt it's worth the bother.

I'm pretty sure we don't want to co-install kdelibs4 and kf5 versions of apps.

I expect some people will want to co-install two versions of Plasma but I don't think it's worth the effort on our side to do that.

Jonathan


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