Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2576 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 21:37:35 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2009-02-18 at 16:10 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 15:24:02 jfweber@ wrote:
> > > Don't install the full KDE4.x tho, just individual packages. If you
> > > install the desktop for KDE4.x that takes over your KDE3.5 desktop so
> > > that doesn't work,as it did before you made that 4.x install . Even
> > > thought they are supposed to work independently, on my boxen it has
> > > proved not to do so Even leaving me w/ a basically unusable 3.5
> > > desktop.
> >
> > If this happens it is a packaging bug, which we are here to fix. Please
> > don't suggest people workaround or ignore these issues - tell us about it
> > and we'll get it fixed. Putting up and shutting up just lets the distro
> > bitrot.
>
> It's a known issue, because the path for kde 4 (/usr/bin) goes before the
> path for kde 3 (/opt/kde3)

If you are starting things from alt-f2 or a shell you should know what you 
have installed, what your PATH is and how to modify it.  If you're using the 
menus, the KDE 3 apps are clearly indicated.  What else should we be doing?

By the way, we're actively looking for people to take over maintainership of 
the KDE:KDE3 packages in the build service.  They are very mature and don't 
require much care and pruning...

Will
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