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

[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
> > machine with archlinux than give it a try.
> >
> >> * They build break KDE into small, modular packages, instead of just
> >> using the packaging supplied by upstream KDE.  I use most of the apps
> >> that KDE supplies, and so don't care about the modularity.
> >
> > In the first moment as i only read this on their homepage i think the
> > same as you but now i must admit that i enjoy removing some of this
> > little apps which i never use.-)
> >
> >> * They patch the upstream KDE packages in a number of ways.  I strongly
> >> prefer to use packages that are as unpatched and plain vanilla from
> >> upstream as possible.
> >
> > The patches been well documented and you can browse through their svn
> > repository. I can understand you again and the only thing what i can say
> > is that i don't have the feeling that they have useless patches.
> >
> > Still again this be only my minds and no commands.-)
> >
> > See you, Attila
>
> I took the plunge and switched over my 3 arch boxes to kdemod3
> yesterday.  Seems pretty solid, and as I chose to install the
> kdemod3-vanilla option, it's probably about as close to stock kde3 as
> I'm going to get.  There's still one or two little customization tweaks
> that they've added that I'm not too fond of, but they're pretty minor,
> and I'll probably be able to find a workaround.
>
> Definitely major kudos to the kdemod guys for all the hard work on
> making this available to everyone.
>
> DR

Well I too have just got my KDE 3.5.9 desktop back, courtesy of the kdemod 
guys, and have also just got the sounds back as well.

I thought I was being clever last night in selecting pacman -S 
kdemod3-complete. This was some 300+MB of dialup downloads, and the machine 
that I have recently built has a habit of totally locking up from time to 
time. Needless to say the following morning the machine had not only locked 
up, but had switched itself off (that's a first). OK, lets start again. Now I 
select the basic pacman -S kdemod3, and some 125MB of download, and that 
progresses with no problems, and I now have the KDE 3.5.9 desktop, and 
thankfully sounds.

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.

Any help on getting access to kscd would be welcome, as it's nice to be able 
to play some tunes.

No real complaints though. At least I've got rid of the horrible KDE4, abd got 
back a 3.5.9 desktop, that I can work with, although a few bits still 
missing.

Nigel.