Dotan Cohen wrote:
2010/1/24 Jon Cosby <jon@jcosby.com>:
Hey, for all of you KDE3 hold outs, someone's finally taking the initiative to fork it to a new project:
http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/
So far, they're only maintaining .deb packages for Ubuntu, but if you want to see KDE3 live on, it might be worth starting a project on the OBS.
This guy had been maintaining and distributing KDE 3.5 packages for Kubuntu for well over a year now, he is relatively well known.
KDE 3 users: please tell me what KDE 4 is missing or doesn't work for you. Other than a few minor issues (no manual panel hide, no System Settings applet, no metadata in Konqueror) I think that KDE 4.4 has all the functionality of KDE 3, and it uses less resources too now!
If there is something holding you back on KDE 3 please let me know what so that I could file a bug on it. Thanks!
I think it is more along the lines of some things were just easier to do/find in KDE 3.X. One example of this is having different backgrounds on each desktop. In KDE 3.X you right-click on any desktop and you have a "Background" section with a drop-down box for "Setting for desktop:" and you could select each desktop individually or "All Desktops". In KDE 4.X you can get each desktop with a different background but to go about it you have to know the magic incantation and survive terms such as "Zoom Out", "Configure Plasma", etc. Some things were just straight forward in KDE 3.X -- I waited and waited and when no message came I knew it must be from you.