Liam Proven composed on 2018-03-07 16:11 (UTC+0100):
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 15:44:37 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Liam Proven wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to drop it completely and replace it with:
... which is the forked, current & maintained descendant of KDE 3.5 -- effectively 3.5.14-04, as of last November?
I wouldn't consider it maintained though:
https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2012/10/maintaining-history-done-wron...
A fair call. I personally would call it "moribund" -- it's not completely dead but it's quite close.
I have it working on about as many installations as I do KDE3. I have fewer of KDE5, as it remains inferior to KDE3 due to pallidity, feature loss and bloat. What ain't broke don't need fixin.
MATE did it correctly as they ported the GNOME2 codebase to GTK3,
Agreed, although it took quite a while.
GTK3 is another abomination.
AIUI, one of the reasons for the GNOME2/Maté fork was that Gtk3 was unstable in its early releases.
Xfce is also moving to Gtk3: https://blog.alteroot.org/articles/2017-05-30/road-to-xfce-4.14-part-2.html
However, both Maté and Xfce are active projects, used in many distros, with many happy users. (I'm one of them myself, of Xfce.)
After both are on a Gtk3 basis, joining Cinnamon, there are some plans to merge their respective suites of accessory applications:
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sarah_cinnamon_whatsnew.php
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-mint-18
This should reduce the size of all the projects and the amount of duplicated code.
There are no such opportunities for Trinity, unfortunately.
did the same happen with Trinity yet, i.e. porting it to Qt5?
Sadly Trinity isn't a very lively project and I don't think there are enough volunteers to support such a signifcant porting effort.
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