> Dear list,
>
> Yesterday I decided to install latest openSUSE (12.2) on one of my
> laptops. Suse provides KDE3
> repositories, though I know not everything went smooth with these builds
> in the past. I started
> in the morning and after spending whole day on installing, configuring and
> solving problems I
> realized that I'm not even halfway finished! The problem is that KDE3 is
> not being updated to
> work with some system services and thus many features just don't work out
> of the box, e.g.
> unmounting of auto-mounted drives or adding new internet connections to
> NetworkManager (I suspect
> polkit to be the culprit). In desperation I installed KDE4, since I need a
> working computer, but
> now I'm trying to figure out what to do next. I am considering switching
> to Debian or Ubuntu
> (though there are no packages for 12.04 LTS!) so I can install Trinity. I
> am worried however that
> I might encounter similar problems as with KDE. So my big question is:
> does Trinity provide all
> these basic fetures like automounting, network management etc.
> out-of-the-box or does it require
> to spend a lot of time to configure the system?
>
> Jan

All are provided out of the box, provided network-manager is <= 0.8.  We
do have network-manager >= 0.9 support in testing for the upcoming R14
release, along with HAL- and DBUS-less mount support.

Our 3.15.13.1 Stable Relase Update (SRU) will be publicly released along
with packages for Ubuntu Precise in the next week or two, though I would
recommend sticking with a slightly older version of Ubuntu (e.g. Oneiric
or Natty) due to some fairly serious bugs in Precise itself which are not
TDE specific.

If you have any additional questions feel free to ask!

Tim