Am Sonntag, 7. Dezember 2008 03:05:20 schrieb Robert Smits:
But we're going to be, when opensuse no longer includes kde3. It seems already that old kde3 bugs are simply being ignored.
That's easy. Either you have paid developers, then there needs to be a company that thinks there are many out there that want KDE3 and hence it's worth a business. Or you have developers that work on KDE in their spare time and hence decide on their own, whether they work on 3 or 4. If there are many, chances are that there are a few who will continue some KDE3 distro. If not, your assumptions about the numbers were simply wrong.
All of it results from a decision to start from scratch instead of extending KDE3. Many of us absolutely don't give a damn about bling, and would have preferred having bugs in KDE3 fixed. What's more, they've invested time and energy in learning and using KDE3 and aren't looking forward to change in the look of their desktop or the way they use it. And none of them feel they were consulted about the new direction in kDE4.
Where are those "many"? Every xth person that uses software can also develop software or at least maintain it. So if there were many, there were some developers that could/would continue the 3.5 way. It really only needs a few to maintain it. Hence, as long as there is no fork of KDE3 that lives a considerable amount of time, I don't believe in the "many" theory, but rather in the "loudest" theory. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org