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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Running KDE 4 programs in a KDE 3 session
From:       David Jarvie <lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
Date:       2005-09-06 1:28:04
Message-ID: 200509060228.04754.lists () astrojar ! org ! uk
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On Monday 05 Sep 2005 14:33, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> El Lunes, 5 de Septiembre de 2005 13:36, Adriaan de Groot escribi=F3:
> > On Monday 05 September 2005 13:15, Frans Englich wrote:
> > > I'm having trouble running KDE 4 programs in a KDE 3 session, which I
> > > think should be possible.
> >
> > IIRC, it already wasn't possible to mix KDE 2 & KDE 3 for the exact same
> > reason -- DCOP and/or KLauncher got horribly confused after starting one
> > of the 'foreign' apps.

Even trying to mix KDE 3.3 and 3.4 (for example) doesn't work. It's a real 
pain when testing different versions of a program.

> I hope this time around something can be made to have a mixed environment =
> working. I'd be more willing to check out KDE4 stuff if I knew I could try
> out a single program in an otherwise working desktop. 
>
> And I think being able to run kde3 programs on a kde4 will be needed for a
> while after the kde 4 release.

I strongly agree.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html
 
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