Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Using both Gnome and KDE Plasma?

[R0b0t1 <r030t1@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 25/01/18 02:28, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 01:16:07 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>
>>>> One user wants Gnome, the other wants Plasma. Is this doable?
>>>>
>>>> Currently, Plasma is installed, and the profile is:
>>>>
>>>>     default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd
>>>>
>>>> The profiles seem to be either-or. There's one for plasma, one for
>>>> gnome. But I need both now :-/
>>>
>>> The differences between the profiles are mainly the USE flags set. As
>>> your system is already built with the plasma profiles, I'd add gnome to
>>> your USE flags and emerge gnome-base/gnome. Portage will shout at you if
>>> you need to enable any other USE flags.
>>
>> Don't know. There's use flags that seem to be set because it's
>> recommended to set them, not because they're needed.
>>
>> It seems to me that I have to choose either-or here in order to have a
>> well working desktop. Otherwise, if something doesn't seem work right,
>> I'll never know whether it's because of the profile or because of
>> something else.
>>
>> I suppose I have to switch to the gnome profile and then see if KDE is
>> still working as before. But it seems I'll have to manually replicate
>> whatever the plasma profile is setting by hand.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> This is what I would do.  I would make sure emerge -uDNp world comes
> back clean, no remerges or updates.  Change profile to generic desktop.
> Do a emerge -DNp world and look at what changes, especially USE flags.
> Take those changes and set them in make.conf or package.use if you
> prefer.  Since both KDE and Gnome has their own desktop profile, using
> the generic profile I think would be the best bet.  You just may have to
> set some things in make.conf/package.use to add KDE and Gnome settings
> to have both installed at the same time.
>

Yes, this works and I've done it, which is why I recommended it.

Cheers,
     R0b0t1