Up to now, I've installed all the KDE4 software (up to Opensuse 42.3), then deleted all the KDE4 versions of Kontact, added KDE3, and used KDEPIM from the KDE3 version for email and so on.
Now I find that Amarok has the Wikipedia function broken in15.1 and I wonder howmuch effort it would take to install a minimal version of Opensuse 15.1 and then install KDE3.
Any comments on the wisdom of doing this? Would I be better off using Trinity?
Thanks, Bob
On 10/01/2019 05:33 PM, Robert Smits wrote:
Up to now, I've installed all the KDE4 software (up to Opensuse 42.3), then deleted all the KDE4 versions of Kontact, added KDE3, and used KDEPIM from the KDE3 version for email and so on.
Now I find that Amarok has the Wikipedia function broken in15.1 and I wonder howmuch effort it would take to install a minimal version of Opensuse 15.1 and then install KDE3.
Any comments on the wisdom of doing this? Would I be better off using Trinity?
Thanks, Bob
It's not hard at all. I generally do a minimal X install with icewm and then add the KDE3 repo and then use yast to add the desktop. There are a few dependencies missed like pinentry-gtk2 and a few others. I generally just install them as I find them.
KDE3 is an absolute pleasure on 15.1. There are a few know issues -- but they never surprise you because they have been there for 10 years :) The only new issue in 15.1 is openSUSE changed to using .svg icons, so if you installed the yast2-qt3 package the icons are missing (everything still works, just no icons - I opened a bug on it, don't know if it will be fixed)
After you install kdm3 and KDE3, just run as root:
update-alternatives --set default-displaymanager /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/kdm3
To change the display manager to kdm3 and you are good to go.
Killer desktop, lightning fast.
Hello All,
I tryed to install Leap 15.1 from scrach, then KDE3 and all the packages that interest me, as I did before. And then, when KMail3 losted the mails I wanted to move into one of its folders, I gave up with KDE3, and OpenSuse. KMail3 was a big reason why I did not want to leave. Yast too. It is terrible to change all, and I understand why Linux is not more present.
This post is probably the last I will ever post here !
Tanks to all and for all.
Patrick --------------------------------- -------- Message initial -------- De: David C. Rankin drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com À: suse-kde3 opensuse-kde3@opensuse.org Objet: Re: [opensuse-kde3] Suggestions re KDE 3 install Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 18:02:36 -0500 Client de messagerie: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1
On 10/01/2019 05:33 PM, Robert Smits wrote:
Up to now, I've installed all the KDE4 software (up to Opensuse 42.3), then deleted all the KDE4 versions of Kontact, added KDE3, and used KDEPIM from the KDE3 version for email and so on.
Now I find that Amarok has the Wikipedia function broken in15.1 and I wonder howmuch effort it would take to install a minimal version of Opensuse 15.1 and then install KDE3.
Any comments on the wisdom of doing this? Would I be better off using Trinity?
Thanks, Bob
It's not hard at all. I generally do a minimal X install with icewm and then add the KDE3 repo and then use yast to add the desktop. There are a few dependencies missed like pinentry-gtk2 and a few others. I generally just install them as I find them.
KDE3 is an absolute pleasure on 15.1. There are a few know issues -- but they never surprise you because they have been there for 10 years :) The only new issue in 15.1 is openSUSE changed to using .svg icons, so if you installed the yast2-qt3 package the icons are missing (everything still works, just no icons - I opened a bug on it, don't know if it will be fixed)
After you install kdm3 and KDE3, just run as root:
update-alternatives --set default-displaymanager /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/kdm3
To change the display manager to kdm3 and you are good to go.
Killer desktop, lightning fast.
On October 1, 2019 04:02:36 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/01/2019 05:33 PM, Robert Smits wrote:
Up to now, I've installed all the KDE4 software (up to Opensuse 42.3), then deleted all the KDE4 versions of Kontact, added KDE3, and used KDEPIM from the KDE3 version for email and so on.
Now I find that Amarok has the Wikipedia function broken in15.1 and I wonder howmuch effort it would take to install a minimal version of Opensuse 15.1 and then install KDE3.
Any comments on the wisdom of doing this? Would I be better off using Trinity?
Thanks, Bob
It's not hard at all. I generally do a minimal X install with icewm and then add the KDE3 repo and then use yast to add the desktop. There are a few dependencies missed like pinentry-gtk2 and a few others. I generally just install them as I find them.
KDE3 is an absolute pleasure on 15.1. There are a few know issues -- but they never surprise you because they have been there for 10 years :) The only new issue in 15.1 is openSUSE changed to using .svg icons, so if you installed the yast2-qt3 package the icons are missing (everything still works, just no icons - I opened a bug on it, don't know if it will be fixed)
After you install kdm3 and KDE3, just run as root:
update-alternatives --set default-displaymanager /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/kdm3
To change the display manager to kdm3 and you are good to go.
Killer desktop, lightning fast.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Thanks, David. I've also discovered the dvd drive on my laptop is broken, so I'll try this as soon as I get a new drive. Thanks for your help.
Bob
On 10/05/2019 03:47 PM, Robert Smits wrote:
Thanks, David. I've also discovered the dvd drive on my laptop is broken, so I'll try this as soon as I get a new drive. Thanks for your help.
Bob
Never fails -- they don't make'em like they used too!
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