Mint 13 MATE - can I install KDE3 apps?

[fraxinus_63]

The superlative Mint 10 Julia has been my workhorse desktop for 18 months now. I am preparing to move to Mint 13. I have been messing around with the live DVD and things look reassuringly familiar.

As a web developer I am a huge fan of Quanta Plus - IMHO the best app of its kind, but abandoned during the KDE3-KDE4 upheavals and now no longer maintained. I could install and run it fine in Mint 10. In Mint 13, it no longer shows up in Synaptic. Presumably it calls for KDE3 libs that are no longer shipped with Ubuntu 12.04.

Can anyone offer advice on how I might install (or hack) Quanta onto Mint 13 - at my own risk, of course!

Thanks in anticipation to anyone who can help. Before anyone asks, yes I have used Bluefish and Kompozer but I have a very strong preference for Quanta and also have numerous Quanta projects, so it would be worth my while investing a bit of time in this.

[vortex59]

Try this: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/
There are deb repos, but I dont know if they are good for Mint 13.

[fraxinus_63]

Thanks, vortex59. I may see if I can identify and temporarily enable an older Ubuntu repo to bring in Quanta and its KDE3 dependencies. This will be my first action on a clean install of Mint 13, so if it wrecks everything my working life won't suffer too much damage.