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.