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Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released

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On 2026-02-11 21:50, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:55:29 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
>> On 2026-02-10 20:34, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:32:14 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> KDE used to offer Konqueror as their all-singing, all-dancing
>>>> universal browser for files, websites, man pages -- just about
>>>> everything. And it still does: just give it a suitable URL, and it
>>>> will figure out what to do.
>>>
>>> I've been running Fedora/KDE for some time and recently loaded openSUSE
>>> leap 16/KDE in a VM. Neither has Konqueror even though they do have
>>> Konversation, an IRC client.
>>
>> No konqueror? That's strange, because openSUSE has KDE3 still
>> maintained.
> 
> I installed it on the Fedora box and it still works. It comes up more like
> a file manager than a browser and does see a NFS export on another
> machine.
> 
> Now I know why the openSUSE iso is so big. It installed K everything but
> Konqueror. I like KPatience but had to install it separately on Fedora. It
> has that, as well as KMahjongg, KSoduku, KMines, and KReversi.
> 
> The KDE DE on EndeavourOS (Arch) doesn't even have a Games category. Also
> openSUSE installed the LibreOffice stuff even though I thought I
> explicitly told it not to. What it doesn't have is yast although that was
> one of SUSE's high points for me.

YaST was abandoned on Leap 16.0. The new installer has faults.

> 
> I'll keep the VM around but I can't see a reason for using Leap rather
> than other distros with KDE.
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.

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Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2026-02-10 03:37 +0000
  Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-10 04:35 +0000
  Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-10 05:32 +0000
    Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-10 02:31 -0500
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        Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-10 19:38 +0000
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      Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-11 11:55 +0100
        Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-11 20:50 +0000
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                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-12 22:30 +0100
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