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

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 04:23:59 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> > 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.

Just compare the USE flags defaults for the two desktops.

% cat /var/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/gnome/make.defaults
# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

USE="colord eds evo gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gstreamer
introspection libsecret nautilus pulseaudio tracker"

% cat /var/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/plasma/make.defaults
# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

USE="activities consolekit declarative dri kde kipi kwallet phonon plasma
policykit qml semantic-desktop widgets xcomposite"

As long as you have all of these set you should be OK, whichever profile
you start with. After all, a profile is only a convenient starting point.

You could even create your own profile for both desktops, which could be
useful if you want to replicate the setup on more than one computer.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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