Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (297 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 09 July 2011 17:24:11 Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2011/07/09 17:05 (GMT-0400) Bob S composed:
> > Hopefully some of our dedicated KDE3 loyalists are planning to port KDE3
> > to openSUSE 12.0.  If so, also hopefully someone will make a detailed
> > how-to for installation. An iso would even be better, Wish I had the
> > talent to do that stuff.
> > Presently running 11.3 with KDE3. Works great. I also have `11.4 with
> > KDE4 and I hate it. Does a lot of stuff and is really "cool" and glitzy
> > that is wasted on me,but there is a lot of functionality missing that
> > KDE3 has. My Kmail address book is the major show stopper.
>
> In my experience, odd numbered openSUSE releases followed and preceded by
> even numbered releases are usually inferior at least in part to those that
> came before and after. 11.3 had immature KMS. 12.x will have systemd. Why
> don't you just add KDE3 to to your 11.4? 

Hi Felix.
I'm a little worried about mixing KDE4 &3 in the same os. I've seen some 
horror stories on these lists when people do that. I don't need any hassle 
anymore, especially with my sight problem.

> Save your worry about unreleased 
> versions until after release. Maybe by next's release Trinity will be ready
> for it.

I was going to wait a month or so after 12.0 was released. Let the gurus kick 
it around a little bit. Just thinking ahead re: tjis e-mail/
> I just made another KDE3 on 11.4 last night, except there was no KDE4
> first, just a minimal X install. 

I don't know how to do a minimal x install and then add KDE. Is there a how-to 
floating around somewhere? 

> So far I see no differences from KDE3 on 
> 11.2 apparent. 
> -- 
Thanks for your advice. Always considered carefully.

Bob S
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