On 2012-11-28 22:28 (GMT+0100) François ANDRIOT composed:
Felix Miata composed:
I removed all remaining *kde*3* except the following:
kde-susetranslations-12.1-14.1.1.noarch kde3-gtk-qt-engine-0.8svn20071009-58.2.x86_64 kdeartwork3-3.5.10-92.2.x86_64 kdebase3-SuSE-branding-openSUSE-11.3-72.1.x86_64
and rebooted into TDE greeter. It would have been nice if it had offered to import settings from ~/.kde, but it seems to be working OK.
OK this is what I thought. KDE3 conflicts with TDE. Until we find a trick, we cannot use both on the same computer.
I'm having a hard time imagining a need for both, as long as equivalent packages (that I use ;-) ) remain available on TDE for all available on KDE3.
You can remove "kdeartwork3" and install "trinity-tdeartwork".
Yikes! Adding this one pulled in 11 others.
You can remove "kde3-gtk-qt-engine" and install "trinity-qt-engine".
"No provider of 'trinity-qt-engine' found (but trinity-gtk-qt-engine is now installed).
About the 2 other packages, I don't know if they are specific to Suse, specific to KDE3, or both. But they are not needed (and not even used) by Trinity, so they are useless to you. You'd better remove them to avoid other strange side-effects.
They're gone now.
Keyboard retains the same inane 660msec default delay as KDE always has. cf. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279201
Nice find. It could be a Trinity enhancement, you should fill a bug report for it.
http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/bugzilla/bugzilla/bugzilla/bugzilla/show_bug....
I'm glad it finally works for you :-)
Not completely yet.
1-Init 3 from runlevel 5 fails to stop kdm, same as with KDE3 in 12.2. rcxdm stop and /etc/init.d/xdm stop don't stop it either.
2-startx instead of TDE starts icewm. Comments in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager fail to say to make TDE the DEFAULT_WM it needs to be set to tde.
3-cnf starttde produces nothing. cnf startkde produces no hits in /opt/trinity/* or from TDE repo.
I hope you will enjoy Trinity.
I can't imagine it not. KDE3 is weak on maintenance resources. KDE4 is hopeless: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158556 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283366 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297217 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297219
This exercise was on my backup box to the system I run 24/7, trying to figure out whether an upgrade from 11.4 to 12.2 is doable. The bonus upgrade to TDE I hope will end the nonsense that updated KDE3 packages are inexplicably added to the mirrors practically every day.
In the meantime, I have at least a half dozen 12.2 systems, at least half of which have KDE3 instead of KDE4. Over time I'll probably convert at least 3 to TDE, but the next step will be a fresh minimal X with TDE on a box whose HD died week before last, which is waiting for me to put in the new one UPS brought me today.