From kde-devel Wed May 05 16:57:34 1999 From: Kurt Granroth Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 16:57:34 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Multiple KDE setups X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92592338715643 Andreas Pour wrote: > This sounds like it would work, but unfortunately breaks source and binary > compatability with existing apps (many have "getenv(HOME) + "/.kde"" > hardcoded into the program). Breaking source/binary compatability is not a problem in the HEAD branch. The apps that have $HOME/.kde hardcoded in them are "wrong" even for 1.1.1 much less 2.0 > There is one way, though, that depending on what machine you are on you can > use a different ".kde" subdir w/out any software changes. Assuming you have > proper permissions in /etc/exports of "host" (presumably you have this > already since you are mounting $HOME remotely), you just need an entry in > /etc/fstab like: > > host:/home/user/.desktop-ken /home/user/.kde nfs > auto,user,exec,rw,bg,soft 1 > > Now .destkop-ken can be a symlink to .kde or its own directory tree. > > The obvious drawback is you need the sys-admin to get involved for creating > the above /etc/fstab entry. But, it is only the sysadmin of the local > machine on which you are working, which often is you :-). AUGH!! Definitely *not* an option. We should reserve sysadmin tasks to the VERY bare minimmum and then only for those cases where there is no way around it! There can definitely a way around this problem without involving a sysadmin :-) -- Kurt Granroth granroth@kde.org http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth