interoperability

[Andreas Jellinghaus <aj dungeon inka de>]

iīm looking for documents how to set up
a system, where the user can choose either
a kde centric or a gnome centric session
(windowmanagaer + filemanager),
and the still run every app.

for historic reasons i have a very well working
gnome (debian potato version), but any tries to
run kde 2.0beta in it failed so far.

there are several servers like the dcop server
that need to be running, and kde doesnīt start them
itself. gnome on the other side starts esd on demand.

so, what programs are necessary for kde apps to work,
if the session was "booted" via gnome-session ?

so, what programs are necessary for gnome apsp to work,
if the session was "booted" via kde ?

also, how compatible is the session management ?
can gnome-session remember and restore kde apps ?
can the kde session management remember and restore gnome apps ?

i realy like to offer both and let the users choose.
and i donīt want a "either" solution, but allow to mix
the applications.

regards, andreas