Also unde OpenSUSE when running Gnome you can simply type 'kate' or 'kaffeine' in console to run KDE3 applicetions, without entering full path, they also appear in Gnome menu.
I have just installed OpenSUSE 11.2 and would say it has well packaged KDE3. Although it is counted as "unofficial", it is based on their official KDE3 packaging. Among other things they have good OpenOffice integration: when run under KDE3 OpenOffice uses QT3 widgets. Is in possible in Ubuntu?
Tried upgrading directly from 8.04.
Bah ha hah ha. Left me with a dead system. Good thing I backed up 8.04
beforehand.
New approach: Install Ubuntu 9.10 freshly, thus bypassing kde4 entirely, then
add Pearson repos.
Initial 9.10 without kde fine so far. After installing kde3 all of a sudden
terminal input became sluggish. after a keypress it took up to 5 seconds
before something happened.
Not rebooted yet. Copied old .kde from other partition to .kde3.
After reboot: keyboard problem stays, DVB-T via Terratec Cinergy T2 not
working. Google. Problem with that Cinergy. Plucked it, keyboard returns to
normal.
So this is NOT a kde3 problem, seems this just rolled in with another upgrade.
Yeah well, now that Shuttleworth said he's had it *buntu will be going
downhill I guess...
Back on topic.
KDE won't even start. /home/dexter now belongs to root:root for reasons beyond
me - *that* now seems to be a kde3 thing indeed.
Fixed permissions manually.
Kopete lost theme settings. Minor casualty.
KMail works, no german i18n tho, GPG tested partially, seems to work (hope
this still stands when I press the send key....), filters work.
Manually added KNewsTicker (one of the main reasons apart from that bloody
Phonon thingy why I don't want to switch to KDE4)
Konqueror: no Baghira! I can bear with the theme, actually don't use it
anymore, but the Baghira sidebar in Konq is one of the more useful additions.
I want that back! Help!
Gonna reboot now and see if that recompiled v4l drivers do any good to the
Cinergy problem.
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