[arch-general] (now 4.5.5-1) Re: kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde & ~/.kde4 removed)

[David C. Rankin]

On 01/08/2011 04:21 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Seriously David, I think it's time for you to give up on kde3 already.
> 
> You can't expect the people on the Arch list to help support old, unsupported,
> and out of date software.  The more you bring your Arch box up to date the less
> and less likely it'll be that old, unsupported software will run on it.
> 
> Why not switch to XFCE or something?  You can still use some KDE(4) apps if you
> want, without having to be tied down to the whole environment.
> 
> DR

Thanks DR.

	I'm not looking for help with kde3. (I know it is dead and not supported and I
wouldn't bother the list with it) I'm looking for why kde4 is loading the old
kde3 kicker & background by default.

	The issue here has nothing to do with kde3. There is no reason I shouldn't be
able to leave it installed and still use kde4. Ever since the June 2008 launch
of kde 4.0.4, it has been widely represented that you can have both kde3 and
kde4 installed side-by-side and they should not interfere with each other.
That's why K3 is /opt based with its user config in ~/.kde while K4 is /usr
based with its user config in ~/.kde4.

	What I need to find is where and why in the kde4.5.5-1 load process the Arch
i686 packages are looking for the prior kde config and creating an erroneous
~/.kde4/share/config/kickerrc. I'm not bitching, I'm just trying to find answers
to not only solve my problem, but help everyone else out that might be bitten by
this.

	There seems to be some difference in the Arch kde4 packaging between i686 and
x86_64. (I know it doesn't make sense...) I have a dozen Arch boxes and I have
no problems with the x86_64 kde4 where kdemod3 is still installed. But for some
reason on the i686 Dell boxes, I either get kde4 pulling in its plasma panel &
the kde3 kicker or I get lockups of kde4 at the end of ksplash (box hardlocks)

	On my suse boxes with both kde3 and kde4 installed, both i686 and x86_64, kde4
loads without any of this strangeness. That's the only reason it points me to
the possibility of an Arch i686 k4 packaging issue. The biggest difference is
the Arch install creates the ~/.kde4/share/config/kickerrc which loads the kde3
kicker panel in kde4. That should not happen. The SuSE install of kde4 creates
no ~/.kde4/share/config/kickerrc at all (which is correct because kde4 has a
'plasma panel' and no 'kicker' at all) So why the Arch k4 i686 packaging causes
a k4 kickerrc to be created at all is a mystery to me and probably worth looking
into as it should not be occurring at all.

	The Arch x86_64 kde4 packaging does not do this either. On my Arch x86_64
boxes, no kickerrc is created:

13:41 nirvana:~> l ~/.kde4/share/config/kicker*
ls: cannot access /home/david/.kde4/share/config/kicker*: No such file or directory

	So something is not correct with the i686 k4 packaging that causes a kde4
kickerrc to be created.

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