how to use 4.0.6 & 4.2.0 simultaneously

[Ambrose Li]

IMHO, since there is an installer, and the installer is not
overwriting the installed XFCE, *and* 4.0 and 4.2 won't coexist, this
should be considered a real problem (for the installer, not for XFCE
per se).

If 4.0 and 4.2 are not supposed to coexist, then the installer should
somehow upgrade the current XFCE. Or, if this is too dangerous, it
should at least detect the situation and warn the person running the
installer and refuse the installation.

Otherwise, we should just drop the installer for now, to prevent users
from having an expectation of something that's not officially
supported.

Just my $0.02


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:58:48 -0400, purslow at sympatico.ca
<purslow at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 041004 Randy Chung wrote:
> > purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
> >> i have KDE 3.2.3 & 3.3.0 happily installed alongside one another:
> >> why wd Xfce be different ?
> >> so how shd i go about "setting up my environment" for 4.2 ?
> >> i'm not complaining (smile), but you're not responding to the problem.
> > Right now, it's not officially supported, so don't expect it to work,
> > and don't expect for support from the developers to put it in :)
> 
> well, i'm trying to be helpful to the developers by testing it for them
> & i can't do that if i can't get 4.2 to start as 4.2 (another smile).
> 
> the installer runs beautifully (except for the window being sticky)
> & writes lots of stuff in various dirs in  /usr/local ,
> but there doesn't seem to be any way to get it to start as 4.2 .
> the presence of 4.0.6 shdn't make a difference,
> as the  2  versions use different config dirs, ie  ~/.config  ~/.xfce4 .
> i've looked in the 4.2 versions of  startxfce4  xinitrc ,
> but can't see any obvious reason why it's picking up the 4.0.6 material.
> 
> > I think Benny is currently working on getting the installation process
> > set up so that you can have both.  I'm also working on it
> > during my spare time as well, and I think we may be upon a solution.
> 
> so have lots of encouragement from me,
> but currently there doesn't seem to be a way of testing 4.2
> even if 4.0.6 were not already installed ...
> 
> BT has what he calls 'garxfce4' -- i've had a look at his site -- :
> mt that be a better way of getting 4.2 to work ?
> does he have any comment ?
> 
> 
> 
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