Not true. Plasma (the KDE desktop and panel) are completely new codebases, there is _nothing_ in there carryover from KDE 3.
The desktop and panel are nowhere near the whole of the KDE Software Compilation or the KDE Platform and not even the whole of the KDE Workspaces (http://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand).
At the time of KDE 4.0, we were still two years away from the KDE SC redefinition. You will notice that I am one of the few who correctly use the term KDE SC when referring to KDE >= 4.4
And, as far as that "_nothing_" is concerned, in fact there is some code in Plasma that is reused from KDE3.
If you want to be pedantic, then yes. It is minuscule. Even gnome has an "int main" line in there somewhere.
Some KDE apps were carryover although even these need major work to replace the Qt3 dependency with Qt4.
Porting is normal when something lower in the stack changes in an incompatible way.
That strengthens my argument, not weakens it.
I don't know where you got your info from,
From me. I'm repeating it only the third time this week.
but trust me, KDE 4 is new almost from the ground up,
As a whole, no.
KDE the desktop and panels. Not KDE SC, which was not even a concept when 4.0 was released.
Agreed. However, the point about keeping the user side of the UI consistent (ie, evolution) seems to be a Gnome priority. Not so with KDE,
So, unlike KDE4 which has new desktop shell implementation, GNOME3 has new desktop shell implementation that, unlike KDE4 which changes quite some KDE UI aspects, changes quite some GNOME UI aspects, with, unlike with KDE4 where the old implementation was eventually abandoned, the old implementation would be eventually abandoned, and that makes them completely different.
Hmm. Could you run that past me once again? Or, after a second thought, rather don't. No need to make these long annoying threads even more so.
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