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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org