On 12/20/2016 10:29 AM, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
Fresh install yesterday. Only trick is you have to remember to select
kdebase3-workspace kdebase3-sessions
(somewhere there are broken dependencies that do not pull those packages in automatically)
Sorry, on what those packages are supposed to be depended on?
Ilya, Great job on kde3 for Leap 42.2. I sent a thank you to the main list yesterday but forgot to drop you a note here. I haven't finished fully tweaking my install, but so far, other than those minor packaging issues, kde3 is working PERFECTLY. That is such a wonderful thing to say after fighting Plasma/Frameworks 5 for the past months and watching my bug count at bugs.kde.org fly past 230 on things that just don't work right, things you can no longer do, or things that are just flat broken in the latest Plasma (direct from git) A fresh install of KDE3 is like slipping into your favorite pair of comfortable shoes. There is nothing in Plasma/FW5 that wasn't already in KDE 3.5.10 (and I'll never use the 'activities' or social media garbage. I was there for the 'forced' roll-out of KDE 4.0.4 as part of openSUSE 11.0 in May 2008. It was horrible -- nothing worked, and we were all promised that 'activities' would change the world -- just give it time to mature. Now literally 8.5 years later, we are back in the exact same boat. Plasma doesn't black-screen like kde4 did, you are literally left wondering WTF??? This group or devs that met in Glasgow, Scotland in 2007 and decided among themselves that they would radically change the most popular and most successful Linux desktop every seen and make it better for everyone. (really) The existing community was just too dumb to see this new futuristic vision of KDE, so despite loud voices of concern by the kde userbase, this handful of new devs ignored the user's concerns, did everything in their power to undermine the continued use of KDE3 and forced, what was actually a crippled alpha-stage desktop out the door as a 'Release' of KDE4. Those with questionable judgment immediately ran to make this 'untested' desktop the 'default' desktop in openSUSE 11.0 intentionally making it difficult to choose the stable KDE Desktop (3.5.10 at that time). When using Plasma, at least the way I use KDE, basically as a power-user/administrator/developer platform, I'm left shaking my head thinking "NINE YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHT DOWN THE TUBES..." So if it doesn't get said enough, THANK YOU ILYA -- FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND EFFORT TO KEEPING KDE3 AVAILABLE FOR US HERE AT OPENSUSE!!! Your effort and work is very much appreciated and keeps alive what, in my opinion, is the finest, most efficient and well designed Linux desktop going. To think KDE3 fully up and running on a 10 year old AMD-K62, or P3 running in 280 MiB RAM is more crisp and responsive than Plasma on an i7 at 2.7 GHz requiring whopping 1.7 GiB of RAM to load. (nine years of development -- right down the tubes...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner@opensuse.org