On Tuesday 31 of August 2010, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
- It seems that some packages were disabled for Factory. Namely, kdemultimedia3 and anything related to Beagle. Please tell me the actual reason or the disabling. I can add to KDE:KDE3 repository any libraries needed for the build. For example, I can restore kdemultimedi3. Or are there any other reasons for the disabling? Beagle in particular is essential for finding topics in KDE help system.
Beagle has been dropped from Factory.
- I have long-range plans to include Qt3-based versions of Yast2, VirtualBox and Firefox. If somebody has experience in compiling Firefox for Qt3, any help welcome.
AFAIK there is no usable Qt3-based Firefox.
- OpenSUSE maintainers, what's your opinion about possibility to include KDE3 option to OpenSUSE? The basic part of KDE3 (including kicker, konq, ksysguard, kcontrol) is already included (to be precise, it was never removed from OpenSUSE), but the ability to logon on KDE3 is disabled. The status of KDE3 repository has improved considerably in recent times, so it may look reasonable to reconsider KDE3's status. To enable a user to install KDE3 on his system we need to include only a tiny package kdebase3-session which takes only 4 kb, this package includes the .desktop file for the session manager so the user could choose KDE3 on the logon screen.
First of all, you are mistaken. The KDE3 desktop is not included, the kdebase3-workspace package is built, since it is built from the same source package like kdebase3-runtime, but the resulting binaries are not shipped. So the kdebase3-session question is void. Second, adding more of KDE3 to the openSUSE distribution is out of question as long as it is not maintained, and by that I mean the real meaning of the word that includes security fixes and so on, not the mistaken it-builds-so-it-is-fine meaning. Unless Trinity really takes off, KDE3 is not going to make it. You can however create a KDE3 openSUSE spin using the build service.
- Besides this one can consider including KDE:KDE3 repository in the list of community repositories along with the Education repo etc so a user could be able to install the full version of KDE3 from the community repo.
Same as above. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org