Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:59:36 +0000 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE3 --> KDE4 Message-ID: <FB015F8ABE2D55AEA2DB209C@utd65257.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <200908062227.00953.kstewart@owt.com> References: <D9D069F574EE82AE9F203CAB@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <d356c5630908061715m5d6ee29cn7ce691141b377618@mail.gmail.com> <FAEFBB8E8714AB89F41AF2D9@Macintosh-2.local> <200908062227.00953.kstewart@owt.com>
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--On Friday, August 07, 2009 00:27:00 -0500 Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > > On Thursday 06 August 2009 05:53:05 pm Paul Schmehl wrote: >> --On August 6, 2009 7:15:18 PM -0500 Andrew Gould >> >> <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Paul Schmehl<pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> >> > >> > wrote: >> >> Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to go >> >> about it? Do I need to completely uninstall kde3 first? Is there an >> >> upgrade path that's not fraught with gotchas? >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst >> > >> > Unless things have changed very recently, KDE4 is in its own directory >> > folder. This may imply that KDE3 and KDE4 can coexist. >> > >> > As always, YMMV. >> >> I was looking for something a little more definitive, like I upgraded like >> this, and here's the problems I ran into. >> >> I don't want to run KDE3 and KDE4 side by side. I want to migrate from >> the former to the latter. > > There are features that haven't made it to kde4 such as koffice. I added > OpenOffice but that can be a long compile. One of my favorite sites crashes > konqueror, which wasn't a problem on kde3. I left my slower machine, which I > use for e-mail, and web browsing running kde3 and play with kde4 on my system > that can do a portupgrade -pfR kde4 in 7 hours and build OO in less than 2 > hours. It is running kde-4.3 now and it has been recursively rebuilt. The > browser crash is still there. I can use the packages of common ports to > update the slower machine. They are on a 4-port kvm and it is too easy to > simply use the machine that works the best. > Thanks, Kent. That's very useful information. I'm going to stick with KDE3 a while longer. This is my primary workstation, so I don't want to be chasing demons all day. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jeffersonhelp
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