Dear Serghei, David and Ilya, I wanted to say thank you for having kept up (Ilya) and continuing to keep up (David and Serghei) the hard work on KDE3. There are too many things that I appreciate about KDE3 and that I would miss in other desktops. For example, besides its stability, I appreciate being able to customize key short cuts, right-click on the top window bar and force the window above others, move windows to other desktops or all desktops, make the panel (kicker) easily disappear or slide to the right. Kicker itself is great. I also like the layout of kterm. I hope that at least the KDE3 core components will survive for a long time. Thank you very much! Gianluca On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Serghei Amelian wrote:
On Wednesday 15 June 2016 12:08:18 David Sterba wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 02:16:24PM +0300, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
Hi, guys. I am posting in regards of KDE3 support in openSUSE.
I have been recently using Windows operating system exclusively and have no plans to move to Linux in foreseeable future. As such I do not have enough time and means to properly maintain KDE:KDE3 for now.
David Sterba has pointed out recently that he has some interest in keeping KDE3 packages on track, and if anybody else is interested to step forward, you are welcome.
And I still do, I have a few kde3 users including myself without intentions to move to other desktop environments.
Given the age of kde3 there are going to be build breakages, sometimes not easy to fix. An example is kde3-celestia that was removed from factory due to that.
I'll review and accept SR that fixes builds and will try to review the build status of kde3, but this has low priority for me.
I actively maintain the main components of KDE3 (qt3, kdelibs, kdebase, kdepim, kdenetwork, kdegraphics), so they should be ok for long time from now (all gcc-6 issues are solved, etc).
At this moment I do some funny experiments, I'm trying to implement a DCOP version on top of DBus instead ICE (Inter-Client Exchange).
Also, I dropped the aRts at all and for notifications I implemented a PulseAudio player, so far is working nice, I'm using it in production.
On long term I will try to port KDE3 to Qt5. Is not easy task, but I will try :)
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