> On Wednesday 17 August 2011 23:21:57 Timothy Pearson wrote:
>
>> That won't work very well at all.  I know from experience. ;-)
>>
>> I am working on a way to get upstream support in place.  The major
>> barrier
>> is going to be getting the distributions to add arts and kdelibs to
>> their
>> repositories; without that, the TDE plugins cannot be compiled by the
>> distributions, forcing unofficial archives to include a rebuild of LO
>> with
>> TDE enabled,
>
> openSUSE still has kdelibs3 and kdebase3-runtime in the main repo.
> Stephan Kulow,  the release manager of openSUSE expressed that he will not
> object to the
> restoration of all KDE3 in openSUSE distro, calling the situation
> "completely different" from
> what was 3 releases before.
>
> One major problem is the removal of hal from the future openSUSE release
> but now we
> have a patch that allows KDE3 to auto-detect media without hal.

Really?  Can you send it in to this list?  That would be a great help :)

Thanks!

Tim