From koffice  Wed Mar 13 20:46:23 2002
From: Keith Powell <keith () keithg4jvx ! force9 ! co ! uk>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:46:23 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Kword and KDE3
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Hello Thomas.

Thank you very much for your reply and the information why Koffice does not 
run with KDE3 beta2.

I did not realise that it was a bug in KDE,  I wondered if it was connected 
with KOffice and QT3. 

Thank you also for the work-round, which I will try tomorrow.

Cheers

Keith


On Wednesday 13 March 2002 1:56 pm, Thomas Zander wrote:
> This is a bug in that version of kde. It will be fixed in upcoming kde3
> releases.
>
> In the mean time you might want to start koffice applications from a
> konsole and do a export KDEDIR=/your/kde2/installation/dir before starting
> a koffice app.
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:42:08PM +0000, Keith Powell wrote:
> > I am trying KDE3 beta2, but can't get Kword, or any other of the Koffice
> > programs, to run.
> >
> > Starting from the console, I get the error message:
> >
> > Koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native Mimetype in
> > Kword's desktop file. Check your installation.
> >
> > I have reinstalled Koffice several times, but always get the same error.
> >
> > I am running SuSE 7.3 and KDE 2.2.2 is installed as well as KDE3 beta2. K
> > office runs when I am using KDE2.2.2. The Koffice files are all in
> > /opt/kde2/ ....etc. Perhaps they should also be in /opt/kde3/.......?
> > Perhaps I should only have KDE3 installed?
> >
> > Any ideas, please? I can't find anything either on the Koffice site or on
> > this group, about any problems running Koffice with KDE3 .
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Keith