Comments on: Right call on KDE 3.x for openSUSE 11.1

By: KDE-Fuzzi

KDE-Fuzzi — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:23:54 +0000

It tastes somehow with bitterness to see a project like KDE grow for about 10 years to be what it is today (KDE 3.5.9), and then getting banned from the distribution (Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex) by another KDE (KDE 4.1), which is no equivalent for the long term KDE user at all. Indeed, users who have become used to a stable tool like kfm, which shines like a jewel in the treause box of KDE, won’t just take “dolphin” and then try to get happy with it. Rather, they would look for a distribution which values their users needs a little bit more over their own direction feeds.

By: Mark A. Taff

Mark A. Taff — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:05:55 +0000

I concur. It sucks to have to manually go through and weed out all the KDE 4 stuff. Why can’t we have a KDE 3.5.x-only pattern?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:27:35 +0000

I agree. Tried using Dolphin as file manager under 4.1 this past weekend to get used to the interface. Crashes were very frequent enough that I gave up and went back to KDE 3.5 using Konqueror.

By: John

John — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:20:12 +0000

I don’t mind the KDE4 and KDE3 apps side by side. For example, Kate for KDE4 works under KDE3 perfectly OK.

I would like to move to KDE4 once Konqueror is stable enough for intensive use. If that is 11.1, all to the good. Otherwise I will carry on with KDE3 for real work and use KDE4 for fun.

By: Vavai

Vavai — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:39:13 +0000

Thanks for the correction, Steve,

Seems that Francis and Carlos are twin

By: Beineri

Beineri — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:41:59 +0000

Those KDE4 apps are installed because they are better than the KDE3 versions (like the games) or their KDE3 versions are not developed/maintained anymore (like openSUSE online updater or KTorrent).

By: superppl

superppl — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:13:46 +0000

Yes! And why do KDE3 users have to use KDE4 applications? They look out of place!

By: Dean Hilkewich

Dean Hilkewich — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:58:00 +0000

I just wished that the KDE3 patterns would NOT install KDE4 apps as well. It’s a real pain to install KDE 3 and then remove the stupid KDE 4 apps (ie card games etc)

By: Beineri

Beineri — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:33:50 +0000

It was not Francis but Carlos.

By: Vavai

Vavai — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:19:58 +0000

Hi Zonker,

I hope I could build openSUSE 11.1 KDE 3.5.x LiveCD as my project. In 11.0, Francis has built the CD after a month or two and for 11.1, hope it would available in a short time after 11.1 officially launched.