Garnome/KDE clash

[Marciano Siniscalchi <marciano northwestern edu>]

Hi folks,

I successfully installed Garnome-2.8.2.1 on my Suse 9.2 laptop and office PC. 
Apart from sundry dependencies that were fairly easy to fix, everything works 
just fine (except for hal/dbus/gnome-volume-manager, which I decided to skip 
for the time being). 

The main problem I am having is a conflict with Suse's KDE setup. Basically, 
if I run Garnome-2.8.2.1, the KDE file associations, menu, and (partially) 
panel setup are clobbered. For instance, in KDE, if I click on a text file, 
KDE tries to launch gedit. I know how to force Suse's startkde script to 
"fix" this (delete your ~/.skel directory, and the script thinks it's the 
first time you are running KDE). However, this is still quite annoying, and 
it sort of defeats one purpose of Garnome---the idea that you can safely 
experiment with more cutting-edge verisons of Gnome without compromising your 
setup.

So, my question(s) are: (1) am I the only one who is having this problem? and 
(2) where does Garnome mimetype information? I thought this was 
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/share/applications, but perhaps I am getting this all wrong!

Thanks for your help,
Marciano.
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Marciano Siniscalchi
Department of Economics 
Northwestern University