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Subject: Re: Multiple KDE setups
From: Kurt Granroth <granroth () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date: 1999-04-30 0:28:12
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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)
--
Kurt Granroth | granroth@kde.org
KDE Developer/Evangelist | http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth
KDE -- Putting a Friendly Face on Linux
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