KDE3 --> KDE4

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Friday, August 07, 2009 00:27:00 -0500 Kent Stewart <kstewart at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Paul Schmehl<pschmehl_lists at 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
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