On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 15:44:37 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com> wrote:
On 03/07/2018 03:39 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to drop it completely and replace it with:
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
... 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.
The problem with old KDE versions is that they depend on a plethora of old softwrae like HAL and Qt3 and just fixing build issues won't do it.
In Debian, KDE3 was purged together with Qt3 since something as big as Qt3 being unmaintained is a potential security problem.
Also a fair call.
MATE did it correctly as they ported the GNOME2 codebase to GTK3,
Agreed, although it took quite a while. 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. I know that when I broached the subject of the Qt-based Unity-2D desktop to the Yunit team, they considered that porting it from Qt4 to Qt5 was not worth the effort, and I am certain that Unity-2 was massively smaller and simpler than KDE 3. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org