On 2018-04-05 01:56, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 04/04/2018 03:05 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
You must start thinking about letting KDE3 die, the support is limited and the problems to maintain it increase exponentially.
Me, I'd be happy to still be able to run some of the KDE3 apps that were not ported. Kbabel, rekall...
for me it's not really that. I run the latest greatest plasma (current as of today) on Arch, and it is simply not the integrated and efficient desktop that KDE3 is. It is painfully obvious that what the original KDE team did was focus on desktop efficiency and human factors as the core of the development, and then each application grew from that coordinated effort and framework.
... Ok, I understand. But the thing is, KDE3 is having problems keeping up with the changes underneath it. I don't remember the details, but things will stop working sooner or later, forcing you to switch to something else that you do not like. I recommend that you install 15.0 with KDE3 *now* somewhere and test it and report bugs. See how it goes. 15.0 is going to be released soon and then it may be too late.
If history is a good teacher -- we should look for it to be in reasonable shape somewhere around 2024. Meanwhile -- there is no reason Qt3 won't still be chugging along, and between a few talented devs and TDE, still providing all the patched and secure functionality of the latest gee-whiz widget set.
Well, if TDE is an alternative, then you can switch to it.
</soapbox (don't even get me started about Gnome3)>
:-D No need :-) After all, I was a gnome user for a decade and I had to switch to xfce. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)