Am Montag 16 Februar 2009 schrieb Carlos Goncalves:
Hi,
On Sunday 15 February 2009 18:59:18 Dirk Müller wrote:
KDE3 is not lost, it lives in the Build Service now, in the KDE:KDE3 repository. And it will stay there as long as somebody is still around that cares enough to fix the build once in a while.
The thing is that most of the people aren't quite clarified about what that would require, since KDE3 is solid rock. For instance, what are those "amusing things" that came up during openSUSE 11.1 development or might come to happen in a near future given your KDE packaging experience?
Once these KDE3 lovers questions get answered I think there might be a chance KDE3 be kept maintained by the community for a very long time.
Well, maintaining knetworkmanager3 against always changing NM API, or finding a way to embed the kde4 networkmanager applet - or go with nm-applet. Maintain the theming so the desktop doesn't look like 11.1 forever. Adapt to e.g. changing Xorg or default fonts in factory. Adapt the mount policies to the always changing HAL. Adapt all packages to always changing packaging policies in factory (e.g. just recently sr@Latn was dropped, but quite some of our kde3 packages still used it). I guess I could go on with a long list, but it might be enough for people to judge if they like the challenge more than the challenge to switch their desktop :) Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org