Le Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:50:07 -0800 (PST), Darrell Anderson humanreadable@yahoo.com a écrit :
A check list of cautions will help people run both in order to use that baseline for testing.
Currently I am dual booting KDE3 and TDE with mirror partitions of my base Slackware 13.1. Dual booting is, um, annoying. I have a couple of user accounts dedicated to testing. Installing TDE on my primary system would allow me to test under the exact same conditions without rebooting. I have a virtual machine with TDE installed, but I can't test everything there --- such as the video issues I discovered with the proprietary Nvidia drivers.
I need to run both with reasonable safety. Hence my desire to encourage some conversation about the topic.
Let me throw a question out to you coders:
Installing TDE alongside KDE should not be a problem with both using different a $PREFIX.
Will running both concurrently cause conflicts because the various app names and libraries use the same name?
That is, will be able to run one user account in KDE3 and another in TDE? Or will all accounts need to exit the desktop before running the other desktop? Or will be there no conflict because each environment is linked to different locations.
I didn't do it with KDE3/Trinity but with KDE4/Trinity I can run a regular KDE4 session, and a Trinity session as another user either in another X server or in Xnest; but I can't run both KDE3 and KDE4 as the same user on different X servers. There is no $PATH conflict since Trinity automatically adds $PREFIX/bin in top of the $PATH. But with KDE3/Trinity ld.so may get confused if Tim didn't make the necessary internal version number upgrades (and it seems libkdecore is still at 4.2.0 so it's a bad sign… with KDE 4.5 libkdecore is at version 5.5.0).
Having all accounts exit is a tad better than rebooting, but only a tad. :)
Opinions?
Darrell
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