On 12/07/2011 06:18 PM, Laurent Dard wrote: > Le 07/12/2011 23:38, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : >> Laurent Dard wrote: >>> Le 06/12/2011 20:12, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : >>>> Perhaps they should be in the book, but I'd like to put our emphasis on >>>> updating what's in the book right now. There are also things that we >>>> may want to remove, e.g. qt3/kde3 but I need to investigate kde4 more >>>> first. >>> On my LFS (CBLFS) system, I use mainly openbox and LXDE from time to time. >>> I planned a long time ago (since the first time I installed LFS) to install >>> KDE3 on it, and I'm going to install Trinity instead: >>> http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ >>> Now, that's my main desktop on Debian and Ubuntu, at home and at work. >>> I really think you should consider replacing KDE3 by Trinity instead of >>> simply removing it. >> I know. The problem as I see it is that Trinity uses qt3. I've done a >> lot of programming in qt3 and qt4 and qt4 is much better than qt3. I >> suppose that's a programmer issue and not a user issue. > I just have an answer from Timothy Pearson at the moment, about this > subject, on trinity-devel. Trinity is renaming qt3 (to tqt3) and new Trinity > code will be able to use qt4 directly in a couple of day. > (in http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/ ; stable version in June 2012) > >> I am aware that qt3 and qt4 can be installed side-by-side. I've done >> that for at least 3 years. The question is whether KD4 and Trinity can >> be installed side-by-side. > Yes. > http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/Releases_3_5_13#A_42KDE4.x_compatibility_42 > > The remaining conflicts with KDE4 seem to be only configuration problems > (path, environment variables...) that can easily be solved: they are > distribution choices. > With KDE4 in /opt/kde4 and Trinity in /opt/trinity, we have to put the > right directory at the beginning of the path when starting one of these > desktop. (Binary suffixes could be another solution, but that isn't the > choice made by Trinity Team.) And we have to find a way to avoid conflicts > about the KDEHOME variable. > > There is a summary of possible issues here, in the alinea > "Running Trinity, KDE 4, and KDE 3 Concurrently" (on Slackware): > http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/sdeg/kde_35x.htm > I had actually intended to put Trinity into the book, but at the time, the cmake scripts were not quite ready for prime time.
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