-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2008-12-07 at 05:51 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
KDE3 will be dropped, just as KDE2 was dropped, and KDE4 will be dropped one day. It never happens fast, and in a year, or two when it happens much faster affordable hardware will be available.
Mmm... :-? The price of hardware remains more or less the same over the years. I mean, the same hardware gets cheaper, but what you get in the shops is newer, more powerful hardware instead, so that the price is maintained. Roughly. Laptops are cheaper than what they were five years ago, yes... but desktop boxes remain in the 600..1200 euros range (in my country, of course), and that's roughly what I paid about 20 years ago for my first 8086. Displays are actually more expensive: A CRT is cheaper, but everybody wants a flat display, and they are still expensive.
I have high hopes that someone might start a fork from the main KDE stream and continue to support KDE 3.x.x. Sadly I myself have not got the skills needed. :-(
Fork will not happen. Those that have skills to fork KDE3 will come to the same conclusion that current KDE team came: KDE3 needs serious rewrite to remove obsolete code and seldom used functionality, that could be nice widget, for few that need that, but not part of the core. Although it works fine right now, the future will bring more voice and images in communications, and it will ask for new methods to present them, and possibly interactively use.
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