Dolphin took over my KDE 3

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Kishore wrote:
> On Friday 12 Dec 2008 2:59:12 am Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> The problem is that it's broken in KDE 3.  I get lots of those when
>> opening devices:
>>
>> http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/5181/dolphinerrorrh4.png
>>
>> That's why I want Konqueror as default.
>>
>>> Anyway, I digress... If you must make the change it is as simple as
>>> setting the default application for the "folder" mime type. In system
>>> settings-
>>>
>>>> advanced->file associations, search for "folder" and select
>>>> inode/directory
>>> and select dolphin as your preference.
>> There's a misunderstanding here.  I want Konqueror back as default in
>> KDE 3, not KDE 4.  In KDE 4 I want Dolphin.  In KDE 3 I want Konqueror
>> as it was before.  Dolphin messed up with my KDE 3 install and made
>> itself default.
>> [...]
> 
> Hmmm... Now that depends on your distribution and how they mix the two 
> versions. I would think that as long as they kde3 and kde4 are configured with 
> different KDEHOME paths, one will not affect the other.

It's Gentoo (that means KDE gets compiled from source).  It's configured 
correctly as far as I can tell (KDE 3 is in /usr/kde/3.5 and KDE 4 in /usr).

Maybe I did something wrong, dunno.  I am running KDE 3 apps inside KDE 
4 and vice versa.  Is this a no-no?

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