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

[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 modular form, and with a few tweaks.
> (And, yes, kscd and the rest of the kde apps you know and love are
> included.)
>
> Shouldn't be too onerous a download now that you've already got the base
> installed.  (And obviously somewhat smaller than kdemod3-complete too.)
>
> DR

Hi David. Many thanks for suggesting the vanilla version of kdemod3. Things 
are now back to where they were before the upgrade to KDE4.1.

I'll probably do the same on my other instance of Archlinux, which I havn't 
yet updated to KDE4.1, as personally I find the KDE4 desktop hard to deal 
with.

I still Have Fedora 9, which has KDE4.05, and will continue to update that, 
and see how KDE4 progresses, but I have to say that KDE4 is very different to 
what I've been used to since Fedora Core 1.

I suppose if you're a new user to Linux, and the distro you install has KDE4 
as default, you just learn to use it, as you've never experienced KDE3.

It's probably fair to say that a lot of us don't like big changes in what 
we're used to. I'm posting from Fedora Core 2, which has KDE 3.2.2, and 
genuinly don't see much difference when comparing it with KDE 3.5.9, but the 
jump to KDE4 is a whole different ballgame.

Anyway, I've done, with some help, what I set out to do, and got KDE3 back on 
my Archlinux install.

Thanks to all on the list.

Nigel.