No co-installability of plasma 1 and 2

[Martin Gräßlin]

Hi all,

in todays hangout Alex asked whether kwin binary is going to be renamed to 
kwin5 to make it possible to co-install plasma 1 and plasma 2.

My opinion of that is, that we don't need to have things co-installable. After 
all kde-workspace doesn't provide libraries where it is useful to have them 
co-installable. It's applications.

My main argument is that our binary is currently called "kwin" and not "kwin4" 
and there also was no "kwin3" binary. So in the past we didn't rename all our 
binaries and given that I don't see a reason to do so for Plasma2.

If a distribution wants to provide Plasma1 and Plasma2 at the same time, they 
can just install them to different prefixes like how project neon does it. The 
time span when users might want to co-install Plasma 1 and 2 is very short. 
Maybe one release cycle. I don't think that it's worth the effort to change 
hundreds of binaries, libraries, plugins, desktop files, source code to locate 
and load plugins for this short period of time.

Anybody who disagrees? Your arguments please :-)

Cheers
Martin
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