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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:35 PM, James Rayner <iphitus at iphitus.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
>> Some days ago I ran the updates for my Don't Panic install, which said that
>> KDE 3.5.9 was being upgraded to KDE4. I let this go ahead having asked on the
>> list if there were likely to be any problems with KDE4.
>>
>> I also have recently installed Fedora 9 which comes with KDE4 as default, so
>> this is not a pop at Archlinux, but more with KDE4, which I'm finding is
>> virtually unuseable. I'm posting this from Fedora Core 2, which has KDE
>> 3.2.2-14.FC2.2.legacy Red Hat, and apart from the odd konqueror crash when
>> accessing certain web sites, there are no problems. KDE4 is a whole different
>> ball game.
>
> I hear a lot of this, but never any specifics.
>
> And a search for KDE or even KDE4 on the bug tracker doesn't bring
> many bugs up. Not ideal search terms given the amount of apps, but
> you'd expect more than 10 results for something "virtually unusable"
>
> So maybe it'd be a good idea to file bugs about this "virtually unusable" DE.
>

Or pull the old PKGBUILDs from SVN and create your own repo housing
the old KDE packages.