Kishore wrote:
> On Friday 12 Dec 2008 6:55:48 am Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> Hmmm... Now that depends on your distribution and how they mix the two
>>> versions. I would think that as long as they kde3 and kde4 are configured
>>> with different KDEHOME paths, one will not affect the other.
>> It's Gentoo (that means KDE gets compiled from source). It's configured
>> correctly as far as I can tell (KDE 3 is in /usr/kde/3.5 and KDE 4 in
>> /usr).
>>
>> Maybe I did something wrong, dunno. I am running KDE 3 apps inside KDE
>> 4 and vice versa. Is this a no-no?
>
> $KDEHOME is where your settings are stored which is usually ~/.kde
> If both your kde3 and kde4 apps use the same location then your setup would
> have trouble as in this particular case, when in kde4 you set dolphin as
> default and the same setting is also used when you log into kde3. You see the
> problem?
>
> what is the output of "kde-config --localprefix" and "kde4-config --localprefix"?
> If both point to the same location then you may suffer the problem described
> above.
nikos@gentoo ~ $ kde-config --localprefix
/home/nikos/.kde/
nikos@gentoo ~ $ kde4-config --localprefix
/home/nikos/.kde4/
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