Further Adventures in Linuxland.
Things are mostly working. I expect I'm still not done adjusting the look and feel of KDE 3.4. I remembered why I moved away from xchat 2.4.3 - it'd drag & drop DCC had an annoying limitation. I've installed xchat 2.6.0 and the parts needs so perl and python can be used with it. After leaving it run overnight, I tried a DCC the way I prefer to start them and it did not crash. Good. It's about time it worked as advertised.
I've also restored data from my backup. The FireWire drive is not automounted (which suits me fine) but there is an entry for it in fstab which indicated what needed to be done. I think I'll change that entry and rename or make another mount point. The default name is rather cumbersome.
Nautilus is installed and set to work as I like. The default "spatial" interface results in what someone dubbed "wading through windows" to do things that should not require such. Opera is also installed and running about how I desire. I'd like to change the 'page loaded but not looked at' color on the tab text from an ugly yellow to a tolerable blue. I'll have to dig some for that, but it's also a fairly minor thing. NEdit is also installed. Things are looking very familiar again. Evidently gtelnet hasn't been updated in a few years and was dropped which is understandable. I did like having a graphical ssh client that remembered addresses and names (but not passwords, of course) but it seems the only graphical ssh client is PuTTY and that seems not to do the things I was using gtelnet for. So I may as well use a terminal window. I liked having those things separate, but then again I only had them separate on belgian and not on any other system.
A video glitch persists, despite some upgrades last night. Unfortunately it manifests whenever the mouse pointer changes, so web browser is affected. It's not a show-stopper, but it should not be happening, either.
The big nuisance at the moment is that almost all my music files are mp3 (and for various reasons will remain mp3) but Fedora doesn't support even playback of mp3 by default. The patent argument is brought out for this, but it seems rather silly with other distributions supporting mp3 playback "out of the box." Rectifying that will likely be tonight's project. Or one of the night's projects. I just don't know for sure what the others might be yet.