What will Slack 13 give me that Slack 11 doesn't have?

On Oct 6, 6:59 pm, "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcf... DeleteThis @sacrideo.us> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:44:24 -0400, Zootal <use... DeleteThis @spam.zootal.nospam.com>  
> wrote:
>
> > How difficult is it to replace KDE 4.2 with 3.x?
>
> Read the README that goes with the packages on the mirrors. I for one like  
> the new KDE, so I'm happy, but at least for now, the old version is  
> available for those who want it.
>
>         Aaron W. Hsu
>
> --
> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its  
> victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis

I have changed to XFCE so the gui problem has gone away at least for
me. But I have one app (Quanta++) that at the moment won't run with
the KDE4 libraries (e.g., Qt 4). Is it possible to switch to kde3.5
for just this one app?

John Culleton

Joe Feise wrote on 10/17/09 10:08:

> Zootal wrote on 10/16/09 21:45:
>
>> "Joe" <invalid.RemoveThis@mailinator.com> wrote in message
>>> I'll stick with KDE 3.5 for now. 4.2 isn't usable.
>>> The only bad thing with 3.5 is that Yahoo IM support in kopete is broken.
>>> The
>>> fix is only in 4.[23].
>>>
>>> -Joe
>>>
>> Know of any good alternatives that run in KDE 3.5? I tried a few, but they
>> were either old and klunky, would not compile, or didn't work with Yahoo.
>
> Pidgin.
> They implemented the fix for Yahoo first, and the Kopete maintainer got it from
> them.
>


There now is a patch for Kopete 0.12.7, the version in KDE 3.5, available:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdenetwork/+bug/430069/comments/2
I just re-build the kdenetwork package with that patch included. Works fine.

-Joe