On Wednesday 01 September 2010 20:11:33 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 September 2010 19:43:54 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >> The outdated 3.5.10 version of kdelibs in the Ubuntu archives (including
> >> kdelibs-data) is not compatible with the new KDE3/Trinity version of
> >> kdelibs (which includes kdelibs-data-kde3).  Please remove kdelibs-data,
> >> and note which programs will be removed with it.  Then try reinstalling
> >> those programs, but with a -kde3 suffix appended.  For example,
> >> kolourpaint becomes kolourpaint-kde3.
> >
> > We on OpenSUSe have no such problems and kdebase3 in the official
> > OpenSUSE repository is in fact the same as that in our KDE3 repo
> > (it is maintained in KDE3 repo and linked to it from Factory).
>
> That its because your official archive maintainers were kind enough to
> remove the offending packages from the main archive,

They did not remove any offending packages. There is simply no offending 
packages. What is in KDE:KDE3 is the same as what was in OpenSUSE when it 
included KDE3 (11.0). And it always was maintained in KDE:KDE3, just the most
stable packages were included in the official repo.

> and transfer complete 
> control of the KDE3 system to the KDE3 repository maintainers.  Ubuntu was
> not so kind.  It is a very simple fix; just remove the old, outdated
> package and only install the new packages from the KDE3/Trinity
> repository.
>
> Also, I'd would like to point out that Trinity contains features that
> OpenSUSE does not.  OpenSUSE uses a patched version of the original 3.5.10
> release, and while they have added features over time their added feature
> set is quite different that Trinity's.  For example, OpenSUSE users cannot
> resize the panel or system tray icons independently of the panel height.

Do you use Dolpin instead of Konq as some people say?

> Trinity users can.

On the other hand we made many patches. Recently we fixed handling encrypted
rar archives and Yahoo login, today we ported Qt3 to libpng4 etc.