Currently sorta reliving the days of using Windows 2000, to remind me that I'm getting old... I believe that's what I was using on the computer I had on my desk in university halls, when I first admin-ed a Slackware server which ran the Student Union website at the time :-)

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Since retro does carry appeal to some of us aging geeks, here's one from me - KDE 3.5 grafted onto a modded 14.0 Slackware with newer Firefox capable of modern websites on a 64 bit system. I'm still working on compiling conky but neofetch and gkrellm aren't too awful.

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My latest deviation, I'm reenacting the glory of the last century 90s

Could try to make my XFCE4 look like KDE3 next

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Basic FVWM with conky & a modern KDE_plasma background image.

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Pretty old PC from 2011 and an old HP 1440x900 VGA monitor. I'm liking Slackware x86_64 15.0 on it so far. KDE Plasma 5.23.5

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Proper job, Cabbie001. Impressive for FVWM.

Hey thanks enorbet. Seemed appropriate for the retro themes being visited lately.

Hey, thanks for the stealth tip on Harley insurance

H a Hah! Sorry 'bout that. I was likely just too happy at finally succeeding to think to install an ad blocker on Firefox and I just wanted to show a working browser in KDE 3.5. The original one won't do diddly. However I do have some bad news - so far although the 3.5 KDE KPackage app (which I dearly love) is pretty easily transplanted into 14.2 in /opt, so far no luck in 15.0. Even with multilib installed it complains and won't launch but maybe a conversion with "compat32" will work. It oddly works un-modded in 14.2.

What is the error? Hopefully you just need to grab a lib or two from an older KDE and place it in the right spot.

Have had a whale of a time with Activities.

In a production environment each Activity would be tailored for each requirement. For example, a Pork processing plant may have Bacon, Gammon, Chops, Meat Joints with monitoring software feeding a database of items processed in each category allowing real-time monitoring of each of the types of meat production.

As just a home user, Activities is only used for personal experimentation, but their creation is a great addition to Linux.

Note: widgets with customisable settings can be individually tailored for each Activity.

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Interesting look. Are the clock & weather displays part of a conky setup? If so, could you share the code?

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14.2 is KDE4. The weather widget is YAWP and the clock is Steamtime Clock, neither of which are available for Plasma 5.

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Hello bassmadrigal and thank you for your response. I suppose it was pretty silly to even consider trying compat32 since that particular Slackware 15 system is 32 bit not multilib but I was grasping at straws because the error was just that it was "an ill-formed binary". I had tried "installpkg --root /opt/kde3" and the same of "qt3" and tried to run kpackage from "/opt/kde3/usr/bin" and got that odd message. Since I had been successful on just a few months old Current 64bit multilib systems just by copying libs right into /usr/lib I thought that might work but was a bit concerned that 64bit was safer since so many libs are no longer listed in "/usr/lib" even on a multilib system.

However, it is after all an experimental hybrid, not one I depend on for daily work, just as a trial before I try it on my daily driver, I figured not that big of a deal to reinstall if worst came to worst, so I copied all the lib files over and just didn't allow overwrites in hopes any app would possibly use newer versions OK.

It worked but a bit oddly. I linked the executable for kpackage from the /opt location into /usr/bin and got a warning that dcopserver wasn't running but shortly after kpackage popped up anyway. If I understand correctly dcopserver is a net protocol that was part of the original kpackage because it was linked to "wget" which I don't want nor need so I may be able to delete that or recompile it to remove the warning... OR I may just have to live with the minor annoyance.

Especially now with so many more packages than existed back when 12.2 was new, being able to see all the files and their exact locations associated with each and every package, all in one app, seems even more valuable now than ever. So it's looking pretty OK.

Which is one of several reasons why I run KDE4 on -current.