Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde3 (96 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 18 April 2011 16:39:19 Erik Sorenson wrote:
> > Wohoo!  IT WORKS!
>
> Based on my and David's experience with Ilya's x86_64 live DVD, I wiped my
> production 11.4_x86/KDE3 partition and reinstalled from scratch. Everything
> works just fine.  I did not install the replacement "systemsettings-kde3"
> module, as Kcontrol now works perfectly without it.
>
> Ilya, are you planning to put the two "desktop-data" files, currently
> in "... /Ansus:/branches:/openSUSE:/11.4:/Update:/Test/standard/", into the
> regular ".../KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.4/" repo?

They do not belong to KDE3, they are part of openSUSE and are submitted to the 
openSUSE updates. They are subject to reviw by openSUSE maintainers. This 
patch has been already accepted to Factory.

> All that said, in my previous 11.4_x86/KDE3 (pre-wipe) install, and this
> one, I've noted only two potential problem areas:
>
> 1.  k3b (v1.05) seems to be getting very long in the tooth, and absolutely
> refuses to format any non-preformatted DVDs that I have.  At best, it will
> start, then finish immediately --- having accomplised nothing, even
> if "forced" is checked.  I have to reboot to Windows and use imgburn to do
> it!

You can use the following command to erase the CDs after which k3b should work
well:

cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/cdrom blank=all

> I've updated a test 11.4/kde3 partition with the latest k3b and, of course,
> it wants to pull in a pile of kde4 stuff.  I've let it do that, minus the
> virtuoso and strigi junk.  Seems to be working OK, but I need to run some
> more tests.

You can try another KDE3 utility - Kiso which exists in the repository.

> 2.  Firefox 4 seems to have rendering bugs, so I have gladly reverted to
> 3.6.16.  Both, in 11.4/kde3, also seem to have difficulty downloading and
> rendering embedded .pdfs.  Need to refresh, try to launch in new window,
> sometimes multiple times just to get the .pdf to load and render
> completely. No such issues in 11.3/kde3.  I've tried both 11.2 and 11.3
> Catalyst drivers. No diff.  Maybe it's just early days.
>
> Anyone else having similar problems?

You can try opera/qt3:

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/opera/linux/1001/final/en/i386/shared/opera-10.01.gcc4.shared.qt3.i386.rpm
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/opera/linux/1001/final/en/x86_64/opera-10.01.gcc4.shared.qt3.x86_64.rpm

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