[Kde-pim] Make KDE PIM 4 installable in parallel to KDE PIM 3

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 21 October 2007, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> I was wondering, if it would make sense to make KDE PIM 4 installable
> in parallel to KDE PIM 3. KDE PIM and especially KMail are
> applications which users expect to be rock-solid, so there might be
> some users who are not comforable with switching to KDE PIM 4 with
> the 4.0 release, but still might want to be able to try it out or
> switch for some applications.
>
> What would that involve?
> - Appending a 4 to the binary name, e.g. "kmail4", "korganizer4",
> "kontact4".
> - Make sure that configuration and data is not 
> conflicting. I'm not sure how this can be done in the best way.
> Switching to a different KDEHOME for specific applications would be a
> solution, but I don't know if that is feasible.
> - Provide some import of config and data from KDE PIM 3 to KDE PIM 4
> applications.
>
> What do you think? Any ideas how to achieve it? Is it necessary at
> all?

I agree with Allen that this shouldn't be necessary. At least not as far 
KMail is concerned.


Regards,
Ingo
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