Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2740 mails)

[Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag, 7. Dezember 2008 03:05:20 schrieb Robert Smits:
> But we're going to be, when opensuse no longer includes kde3.   It seems
> already that old kde3 bugs are simply being ignored.

That's easy. Either you have paid developers, then there needs to be a company 
that thinks there are many out there that want KDE3 and hence it's worth a 
business. Or you have developers that work on KDE in their spare time and 
hence decide on their own, whether they work on 3 or 4. If there are many, 
chances are that there are a few who will continue some KDE3 distro. If not, 
your assumptions about the numbers were simply wrong.

> All of it results from a decision to start from scratch instead of
> extending KDE3. Many of us absolutely don't give a damn about bling, and
> would have preferred having bugs in KDE3 fixed. What's more, they've
> invested time and energy in learning and using KDE3 and aren't looking
> forward to change in the look of their desktop or the way they use it. And
> none of them feel they were consulted about the new direction in kDE4.

Where are those "many"? Every xth person that uses software can also develop 
software or at least maintain it. So if there were many, there were some 
developers that could/would continue the 3.5 way. It really only needs a few 
to maintain it. Hence, as long as there is no fork of KDE3 that lives a 
considerable amount of time, I don't believe in the "many" theory, but rather 
in the "loudest" theory.

Sven
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