KDE3 emulator

[jo...@wexfordpress.com]

There is one very useful program, Quanta++ which runs fine under KDE
3.5 but ahsn''t been updated for KDE 4.xx and probably won't be. The
developers are off working on Kdevelop which serves a different
audience. Currently I have to reboot a Slackware 12.2 partition just
to use this one program.

Is there a way to emulate the 3.5 environment complete with its
libraries without messing up my KDE4/Qt4 environment?

John Culleton

[J.O. Aho]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:

Sure, you can use kdeprefix to build the KDE3 into another directory
herarcy than usually, this is also possible to do with QT3 too, don't
forget to tell KDE3 where to locate the QT3 headers and libraries.

If you want to see how to do things, take a look at Gentoo sunset
ebuilds, those uses alternative paths for KDE (in Gentoo KDE was located
in /usr/kde/<kde-version>".

You will need to build a lot, easiest may be to use the monolithic build
and build the whole KDE3, then you need to worry less for dependencies
and which order to build what.

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//Aho