Help to revert from KDE 4

[John Summerfield]

R. G. Newbury wrote:
> R. G. Newbury <newbury <at> mandamus.org> writes:
>  >>HELP!...KDE 4 is a bloody disaster. At the moment, I have no KDE 
>  >>"Start" icon, no panel, and worse yet, NO KONSOLE. I eventually found 
>  >>that I can start an xterm, by using the 'Run' command, but xterm is 
>  >>not konsole. The screen appears unstable too...
> 
>  >It's not supposed to be that broken!
> 
> Well it is!. The screen is not *actually* unstable...after some time, it 
> switches to  (I guess) a screen saver, which is little pop-up balloons 
> describing features...gwenview and other programs....Huh????
> 
> 
>  >Before you decide to kill KDE 4 outright, make sure you have kdebase 
>  >and kdebase-workspace installed so you actually see KDE 4 the way it 
>  >was intended  to work. The kdebase package was split in KDE 4 (there's 
>  >now kdebase-runtime, kdebase and kdebase-workspace) and upgrades don't 
>  >always pull in all three pieces.
> 
> Well that's really...hmm, what is the word?...bloody stupid! I got 
> tagged by having fedora-development.repo in my yum.repos.d folder. Kinda 
> bloody stupid not to have all three in that repo and referenced as 
> dependencies if the damn thing won't run properly without them.
> 
>  >And the easiest way to downgrade is to reinstall Fedora 8 from scratch.
>  >Kevin Kofler
> 
> And isn't that one HELL of an advert for stupidity too!.
> 
> And yes, it is....thankfully I have my data separated but it still takes 
> a chunk of time, and now I have to re-update and install a whack-o-crap...

Well, I have kde4 too, but I had to take action to get it. I had to 
enable the development repo(s), and then I track rawhide until f9.

KDE4 works so well for me that I've decided to use Gnome for the 
present. It works fine. Well, as fine as Gnome can be said to work.