[kde-linux] kde3 applications working together with kde4 versions

[Beso]

2008/7/3 SeaJey <seajey.serg at gmail.com>:

> Good day to kde community.
>
> KDE3.5 still my main DE, but I am frequently switching to KDE4.1beta2 or
> kde-nightly to see how the things will work in nearest future.
> And I have some questions about team-work of kde3 and kde4 applications:
>
> How can I set kwallet-kde4, konqueror-kde4, kopete-kde4 to be main wallet,
> browser and IM applications by default still to be able to launch there
> kde3
> versions?
> I want to open link from akregator in external browser (wheel-clicking on
> it) - and konqueror-kde4, running on the same virtual desktop will open
> this
> link in another tab.
> I want kopete-kde4 to autostart after logout - currently old kopete is
> launching instead of it.
>
> And I want for example kontact-kde3 and kopete-kde4 to use the same wallet.
>
> I think some softlinking will help me but I don't know how to do it
> properly.
>
> Need your advise.
>
> PS
> Sorry for my english.


flameeyes, one of the gentoo council devs has posted a dirty hack on his
blog to have kde4 apps running on kde 3.5.

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/articles/2008/01/19/an-hacky-trick-to-run-kde4-applications-in-a-kde3-session-without-messing-stuff-up

the problem is that this applies to gentoo so you have to adapt it to your
personal distro. the main points are the env vars, and the symbolic linking.
just be sure to make a copy of the old env vars and of the .kde dirs so that
you won't loose settings.
this hack will make a good deal of kde4 apps to start or autostart directly
on 3.5 instead of the default 3.5 ones.

-- 
dott. ing. beso
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