Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread Attila
On Mittwoch, 13. August 2008 00:25 Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > I'm following kde development since 5 years, and read about 1/4 of kde base > code. I'm sure it's going to work for the majority of users around 4.3. Not with 4.2 ... not nice to hear. > Not for me. But i'm weird ;) What be your

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread Attila
On Dienstag, 12. August 2008 23:54 Nigel Henry wrote: > Can't find kscd though, and /usr/share/applications only shows an empty > directory for kde4, and I was trying to find konquerors superuser file > manager to add to the desktop. As said from David "pacman -S kdemod3-vanilla" should solve you

[arch-general] Kudos to the kdemod gang

2008-08-12 Thread w9ya
Hey gang; I wanted to voice my appreciation to the kdemod folks for doing things the "Arch-way" and giving choice back to the user-base by creating the kdemod-legacy repo and packages. It is nice to see such a group doing something that is both worthwhile and definitely needed. AND it is nice t

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 00:07, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > Any help on getting access to kscd would be welcome, as it's nice to be > > able to play some tunes. > > Try pacman -S kdemod3-vanilla. That's pretty much the equivalent of the > stock KDE packages, albeit, in mo

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
> So, dunno - "epic fail" seems > a bit premature for me right now. I'm following kde development since 5 years, and read about 1/4 of kde base code. I'm sure it's going to work for the majority of users around 4.3. Not for me. But i'm weird ;) When a working machine sowly evolves into beeing mis

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: just my two cents: complain at the upstream. It's their fault. kde declared 4.1 production ready. archlinux just provides binary packages for the latest stable upstream package. If you don't like that, archlinux is the wrong distro. Exactly as I said earlier in

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread Alessandro Doro
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:07:00PM -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: >> Any help on getting access to kscd would be welcome, as it's nice to be >> able to play some tunes. > > Try pacman -S kdemod3-vanilla. That's pretty much the equivalent of the > stock KDE packages, albei

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
just my two cents: complain at the upstream. It's their fault. kde declared 4.1 production ready. archlinux just provides binary packages for the latest stable upstream package. If you don't like that, archlinux is the wrong distro. Yes kde4 IS EPIC FAIL. but thats really not archlinux' fault. I

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Nigel Henry wrote: Any help on getting access to kscd would be welcome, as it's nice to be able to play some tunes. Try pacman -S kdemod3-vanilla. That's pretty much the equivalent of the stock KDE packages, albeit, in modular form, and with a few tweaks. (And, yes, kscd and the rest of the

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 17:18, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Attila wrote: > > On Montag, 11. August 2008 20:38 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > > I have had the same feeling as you and take first a look at it in my > > arch64 test partition. If you have such a possibility too or a virtual > > machi

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread Attila
On Montag, 11. August 2008 20:41 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > See if this helps. Try the tip for setting konqueror as default application > in inode/directory entry. This works perfect and i must say that i was too stupid to find it because it is the same as under kde3.-) > Oh BTW, it brings an

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Attila wrote: On Montag, 11. August 2008 20:38 David Rosenstrauch wrote: I have had the same feeling as you and take first a look at it in my arch64 test partition. If you have such a possibility too or a virtual machine with archlinux than give it a try. * They build break KDE into small, mod