Comments on: how-to: keep your kde 3.5 after it’s removed from gentoo’s tree, using the kde-sunset overlay

By: Dyllan

Dyllan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:03:03 +0000

First off thank you Alex for the overlay! I manage around 200 KDE Desktops off of 1 server and a recent upgrade to KDE4 did not go down well. I franticly searched for a way to downgrade to KDE-3.5 and came across this posting which was effortless.

My setup is a bit different as it is configured for a work environment so there is no multimedia, I use split-ebuilds, but managed to get the desired KDE configuration. Anybody else who is using split-ebuilds and required assistance with using this overlay I will be happy to assist.

Lastly I noticed that the kiosktool is not included in the sunset portage, is there any possibility of including it, I rely greatly on it.

Thanks again,
Dyllan

By: Ian Ballantyne

Ian Ballantyne — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:26:07 +0000

Did a sync today, there are several packages that have been masked that are needed for kde3, koffice, kphotoalbum. Even the kdelibs now appear to be masked!!!
‘!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy “kde-base/kdelibs:3.5″ have been masked.”‘
What do we do now??? HELP!!!!! I don’t want KDE4!!!!

By: Vndecid

Vndecid — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:26:45 +0000

Hi…I have a question.I try to install the package gtk-engines-qt …but there isnt this packages for kde 3.5 in “KDE-SUNSET”….Why??

By: hugin

hugin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:22:23 +0000

Thanks a lot! I already thought about switching to a different window manager or even Crux or some other do-it-all-yourself-distro because Gentoo insisted on KDE4… KDE4 messed up my keyboard (yeah, that’s right, under KDE4 my keyboard doesn’t work like usual o.O ), I can’t set up all the shortcuts I want… I used to have win+c to fire up konsole, win+h to open home in konqueror, win+s to open the start menu… just to name a few… more than 50% of my shortcuts can’t be set anymore or don’t work any longer… and I don’t need or want that plasma thing… I want a clean, oldschool desktop… and I want my Amarok-1.4 back, Amarok2 sucks hard
KDE4 is just some semi-functional bloated Krap
thanks again for explaining how to stick to KDE3 on my favourite distro!
I will think about using KDE4 once someone shows me that keyboards work like they should, that I can set and use(!) all my shortcuts again, that it can be made look like KDE3 and that Amarok2 is useable or Amarok1 is supported

By: parmax

parmax — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:02:37 +0000

I really do not understand why portage maintainer removed KDE3.5 from portage, KDE4 is not stable, application crash is normal for KDE4. Its completely unstable. Thank you very much for this guide which will help me to remove KDE4 and install KDE3.5 again. I think KDE4 will need at least 2-3 years to meet level of stability acceptable for me.

By: Ian Ballantyne

Ian Ballantyne — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:19:28 +0000

Thank you oh so much for posting this easy to follow guide. I have been avoiding a general update of my system to KDE4 for a long time now because KDE4 is for me a disaster. Even as I tried KDE 4.3.3, which is supposed to be stable, I had application crashes and horrible performance problems.

Last year I built a 64 bit system with 4Gb ram and an AMD 64 X2 dual core 5000+ cpu. It’s fast, things responded in the blink of an eye, as I expect them to. It was like having a ferrari. Then I tried KDE 4 on it, and it was horribly slow, like putting a 25 ton trailer on the ferrari.

I for one will not be going to KDE4 any time soon, it’s just too much of a resource hog, too slow, and too unstable.

By: pappy_mcfae

pappy_mcfae — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:05:26 +0000

This trick chopped my /etc/portage/package.mask and /etc/portage/package.unmask down to almost nothing. Thanks for that.

Now to get kitchensync to finish setting up.

Blessed be!
Pappy

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:55:28 +0000

Thanks for that layman explanation, but I still wonder why I get this mysterious kopete compile errors and why this tool is needed by kde-network-meta (when using kde-meta as main package)…, I’ll file a bug and will see what happens.

By: Dnt2

Dnt2 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:17:07 +0000

Thank you, thank you. KDE 4.3.1-r1 didn’t get the expected acceptance at work, so I needed to downgrade to KDE 3.5.10.

By: Angelo

Angelo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:12:17 +0000

Thank you for this. I tried adding >=kde*-4 to package.mask but it still insisted on KDE4. Now it shows KDE3 again. Yay.

I finally tried KDE4 when it went “stable”, but it has lowered my productivity dramatically and doesn’t seem entirely stable to me. I really miss the independent desktops on my dual screens, too.