On Sunday 07 December 2008 04:55:28 am Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Sunday 07 December 2008 09:49:39 Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 07 December 2008 02:12:13 am Lisi Reisz wrote:
So once I can no longer use 3.x.x
Why not?
Because it will eventually be dropped from all repositories and new hardware might necessitate a more up to date distro.
Hmm. New desktop may necessitate more up to date hardware is usually the problem, but unlike some company that overestimated user pocket and launched their most recent bloatware, KDE4 with additionally loaded KDE3 related libraries is barely bigger than KDE3 alone, so be confident that 4 is slimmer than 3. KDE3 will be dropped, just as KDE2 was dropped, and KDE4 will be dropped one day. It never happens fast, and in a year, or two when it happens much faster affordable hardware will be available.
I have high hopes that someone might start a fork from the main KDE stream and continue to support KDE 3.x.x. Sadly I myself have not got the skills needed. :-(
Fork will not happen. Those that have skills to fork KDE3 will come to the same conclusion that current KDE team came: KDE3 needs serious rewrite to remove obsolete code and seldom used functionality, that could be nice widget, for few that need that, but not part of the core. Although it works fine right now, the future will bring more voice and images in communications, and it will ask for new methods to present them, and possibly interactively use. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org