From kde-devel  Fri Apr 30 00:28:12 1999
From: Kurt Granroth <granroth () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:28:12 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Multiple KDE setups
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Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> >    #!/bin/sh
> >    KDELOCALDIR=$HOME/.kde-hi startkde
> > 
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> ln -sf $HOME/.kde-hi $HOME/.kde
> startkde
> 
> Buthhh.. this solves the problem only partially. Practically, you just
> want only a subset of the configs adaptable to different machines you
> have. Like the color schemes, the set of graphics etc.

This also solves the problem ONLY if the KDE sessions were run synchronously.
If I have two different desktops on two different machines at the same time
(as I do), then this won't work.

> Then the best will be (for KDE-2.0) to prepare the theme manager with
> commandline options for theme manipulation.
> 
> I had (at www.100webstreet.com) a draft which described a sort of general
> mechanism for handling KDE config items (even dynamically adaptable) but I
> didn't have the time to work on code for this and then Stefan Taferner got
> his kthememgr ready. My intention was to make possible to handle complete
> or partial (or in-whatever-detail customizable) subsets of the KDE config
> through these theme descriptions - even mouse focus policies and such.
> This had especially a whole-system/big-net admin side, as well as fast
> user-side prototyping.
> 
> (I handle to always use 10000 words for 0.001 content; sorry)

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