Re: FreeBSD vs Red Hat 9: ARGH!

Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Rob Kaper <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>I suppose that Red Hat's KDE code and FreeBSD's KDE code could be different
>>versions or at least different configurations/compilations, both working on
>>the same NFSed home directory (oops, folder!) with the same $KDEDIRS ..
> 
> 
> Yes same home directory and $KDEDIR...  that's the way it has to be if
> the KDE applications are going to be storing data and stuff.
> 
> One of the problems is, for instance the Red Hat konqueror.desktop
> file is not located in the same place as the FreeBSD konqueror.desktop
> file.
> 
> 
>>I know there are some issues with running multiple KDE versions on the same
>>configuration files. Forward is never a problem, but going back a version
>>can cause problems. :-|
> 
> 
> This is a serious problem.
> 
> 
>>Unless that's already the case, the best bet would probably be for the
>>sysadmin to deinstall KDE on both systems and compile the same KDE version,
>>vanilla or patched in the same way from source.
> 
> 
> There's no way I'm going to ask for that...  afaik the workstations
> here have the minimal customizations necessary to the basic distros,
> for easy version upgrades.  Our sysadmins are busy enough as it is
> without having to deal with a major KDE redeployment.
> 
Have you tried replacing the RedHat version of KDE with the standard 
unofficial version:

	http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

This might work better.

--
JRT


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