Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (955 mails)

[Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@xxxxxxxx>]

On 10/25/2011 10:47 AM, Claudio Freire wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Will Stephenson<wstephenson@xxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Finally, if I may suggest a more useful way to please the diehards while
> > making openSUSE unique: just port KDE 3 kdesktop and kicker to KDE 4, provide
> > it as an alternate KDE 4 desktop shell in KDE:Extra.
>
> +1
>
> I think all this effort would be better spent finalizing the missing
> functionality of KDE4 apps.
>
> Like kaffeine, I miss kaffeine3, which was complete, a decent media player.
> Kaffeine4 doesn't even have a way to switch subtitles, which is ridiculous.
>
> All this effort in KDE3 would be better spent in trying to fill those
> huge gaps in KDE4 functionality, IMO.

Remember, this is a community and a community project, not a company. 
Thus, one should be careful about telling people wher they should spend 
their time and effort. Ilya has decided to maintain KDE3, which I am 
certain has benefits for some users of openSUSE. Thanks for the effort Ilya.

The question we should be discussing here is not how people spent the 
time they volunteer to the project, rather we should discuss whether 
KDE3 should be part of the main release and what to say about it in the 
release notes.

IMHO KDE3 should not be part of the main release, for reasons I 
mentioned earlier in this thread, but should be promoted in the release 
notes in a "Community" section thereof.

Later,
Robert

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