Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] How to get rid of things depending on KDE4.
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:43:13
Message-Id: 20110918234201.12264f2a@weird.wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] How to get rid of things depending on KDE4. by "Sebastian Beßler"
1 Sebastian Beßler writes:
2
3 > Am 18.09.2011 23:23, schrieb Alex Schuster:
4 > > Dale writes:
5 > >
6 > >> I am still working on a stable install of KDE3 for a friend.
7 > >
8 > > I gave up on this. I was not able to enable HAL :-)
9 >
10 > HAL is just on of many good reasons to avoid KDE3 and use something else
11 > like e17 or xfce4. If KDE tools are needed then use the ones from KDE4,
12 > they work flawless with other DE and WM
13
14 The problem were the kioslaves, without HAL, KDE3 was unable to detect
15 and automount external media. I wanted to keep the setup, the PC is
16 rather old and slow, but in the end I switched to KDE4. Using Sabayon
17 Linux instead of Gentoo, in order to avoid the compiles.
18
19 Wonko