04-19-2008
You just need to have enough partitions, one for each install (plus, as mentioned above, probably a good idea to have your data outside of those, so you can access it from either installation). At install time, leave one partition empty and then let the other installer install to that. They should be perfectly able to coexist peacefully, in my experience.
Can't say much about KDE, I've been using Gnome and never saw any reason to try K. I basically just use the GUI to launch my music player and browser anyway, and everything else happens in Emacs or the terminal.
They seem to have a wider spectrum of software written specifically for KDE but most of it will run in Gnome just fine as well. From a programmer's point of view I understand Qt (the KDE toolkit) is pretty much best in class, but I haven't done any GUI programming myself, so can't really comment on that. My prejudist opinion is that KDE seems more oriented towards eye candy, but my KDE friend says Gnome is impossible to use without a mouse, whereas he routinely uses KDE from the keyboard only. Anyway, both of them have a fair share of programs which quite horrible usability -- I guess a lot of developers assume it will Just Work as long as they have an all-dancing, all-singing animated color-flashing GUI. (Ahem. Gets off soapbox. Pardon me.)
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kbuildsycoca
KBUILDSYCOCA(8) KBUILDSYCOCA(8)
NAME
Description - Rebuilds the system configuration cache.
SYNOPSIS
kbuildsycoca [--nosignal | --incremental | --help | --help-qt | --help-kde | --help-all | --author | -v, --version | --license]
DESCRIPTION
kbuildsyscoca, as part of the KDE command line tools ensures the proper operation of KDE by reading in all the .desktop, .directory, .kim-
gio and .protocol files to constructs a binary database.
KDE itself accesses this databse during operation to provide configurational information a program needs to run.
This tool is part of ksyscoca, which stands for KDE System Configuration Cache
OPTIONS
--nosignal
Don't signal applications
--incremental
Incremental Update
--help Show help about options
--help-qt
Show Qt specific options
--help-kde
Show KDE specific options
--help-all
Show all options
--author
Show author information
--version
Show version information
--license
Show license information
USAGE
A standard way to run this program is by simply specifying the following command at the prompt kbuildsyscoca
FILES
/tmp/kde-$USER/ksyscoca
...
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
$KDEDIRS
Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations
SEE ALSO
ksycoca(3), kblah(4), knogga(6)
BUGS
There are no known bugs at the time of writing.
2001-04-25 KBUILDSYCOCA(8)