Re: Mandriva 2009.1 Gnome

OK, installed 3.5.3 from the 2009.0, as suggested.  It puts a heap of dependencies in, and it locates the packages in /opt, which was a bit of a surprise.  It does not put an entry in the gnome menus.  I put a launcher in the task bar, but didn't manage to have it find the tellico icon.  Not the end of the world.  There is a peculiarity in this edition which I'd noticed before, the open file doesn't work properly - it doesn't see any files.  Again, not the end of the world, since you can do open with, navigate to /opt and find tellico, and then tellico will automatically revert to the last opened file.

I thought Mandriva 2008 spring was nice and relatively foolproof, but two things seem clear from this.  One is that KDE4 is a step too far.  The other is that Mandriva has not changed its spots.  Stick with Debian.