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   Carlos E. R. to rbowman   
   Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5   
   11 Feb 26 23:52:57   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   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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