[Kde-imaging] Developing on KDE3/KDE4 simulateneously ?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Vardhman

Nice to sse you again in this room (:=)))

This is how i work :

- I use Mandriva 2008.1 official.
- KDE3 is the default desktop. all devel package are installed.
- i have installed all KDE4 devel packages (4.0.3) + CMake + Qt 4.3.3.
- KDE3 is installed in /usr. KDE4 in /opt. No conflict !
- i don't use KDE4 desktop, i always use KDE3, all the time. Why ?
KDE4 desktop is unstable for the moment and freeze my computer or
crash speedly. This will be better certainly for KDE 4.1 or KDE 4.2.
In fact i use only KDE4 shared libs to run KDE4 applications in a KDE3
desktop. It's work very well. KDE4 core Libs4 are better than all the
rest of the KDE4 desktop.
- to develop, debug, hack KDE3 code, nothing special is done. I'm work as well.
- to develop, debug, hack KDE4 code, i just need to set KDE4/Qt4 env
variable to be able to run all run time dependencies, especially
KIO-Slave, and plugins to load. In Mandriva, i small script name "k4"
is used like this :

# k4 digikam => digiKam for KDE4 run.
# digikam => digiKam for KDE3 run

And _that_ all. No need to recompile whole KDE4 etc. I have no more
free time to hack the rest of the world (:=))))

I hope this feedback will help you.

Best

Gilles Caulier

2008/5/25 Vardhman Jain <vardhman at gmail.com>:
> Hi devs,
>     I recently installed Kubuntu 8 with KDE 4. I got the KDE4 version of
> digikam and libs compiled and working. However I need to work on KDE3
> version of the kipi-plugins too, Is there a simple way out for this ?
> Installing KDE3 libs etc in a particular prefix like /opt and getting all
> the libs to be installed there ?
> From my previous experience of Installing KDE 3 libs by compiling I am quite
> worried that this might be too cumbersome specially if I keep requiring to
> download all the dependency libs one by one downloading, making, make
> installing.
> On the other hand if I cud somehow get prebuild libraries installed and get
> them to work it would be much simpler, any suggestions ?
>
> Last option would be to have a old KDE3 version run over VMware in a
> separate image as is my current KDE4 version running. What is most common
> approach people follow here ?
>
>
> Vardhman
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