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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Multiple KDE setups
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date:       1999-04-29 9:11:07
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Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> The Problem
> -----------
> It occurs to me that there is no easy way, currently, to have more than one
> distinct user-level setup for KDE for one account.
> 
> My situation at work is that I tend to use up to 4 different computers -- all
> with very different hardware requirements.  On my "main" workstation, I have a
> nice big monitor (21") with a decent (24-bit) graphics card.  On most of the
> other ones, the monitor is 19" with an 8-bit card.  This means that my very
> cool looking desktop with all of it's high-color graphics looks and acts
> *terrible* on some of the machines.
> 
> What would be *very* handy is a way to have multiple setups for my account.
> That way, I could have my graphics intesive desktop for my main workstation
> but still be able to use a more boring version for the other stations.
> 
> A Possible Solution
> --------------------
> Most, if not all, KDE apps use KApplication::localkdedir() as the base for
> local configuration stuff.  This static function looks like so:
> 
>    return ( QDir::homeDirPath() + "/.kde" );
> 
> In other words, $HOME/.kde.
> 
> What if this was user settable?  If this was the case, then I could set the
> local kde dir just before starting up KDE on each workstation and I would be
> ensured that my special settings would hold only for that workstation.
> 
> Something like so could work:
> 
>    QString localdir(getenv("KDELOCALDIR"));
>    if (localdir.isEmpty())
>       return ( QDir::homeDirPath() + "/.kde" );
>    else
>       return ( localdir );
> 
> So I could have $HOME/.kde-hi and $HOME/.kde-lo and two setup scripts
> 
>    #!/bin/sh
>    KDELOCALDIR=$HOME/.kde-hi startkde
> 
> Does this sound reasonable?

Actually some user sent me a patch to change all $HOME/.kde to
kdelocaldir() to
make it customizable for him. But make sure that all applications are
consistent
here.

Greetings, Stephan

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