Le dimanche 30 août 2015, David C. Rankin a écrit :
On 08/30/2015 04:48 PM, Patrick Serru wrote:
I know that KDE3 is near death. But me too, so its not a problem, is it ? I regret that KMagnifier and more recently kDiff have disappeared from "pure" KDE3, but my contact with KDE4 were so traumatic since Oss_10.3 that seeing something with the number 4 in the list of missing packages makes me running away. I suppose that things of KDE3 will disappear little by little, and that at the end, KDE3 itself will disappear. That's life, isn't it ?
Oh NO, NO, NO
KDE3 is not near death. It is a fantastic desktop that will live on and on. It only takes the continued dedication of Ilya and Serghei to build it for opensuse. The only challenge kde3 faces on opensuse is a patch when ConsoleKit is no longer provided. (ConsoleKit is still part of the base release in 13.2). The only challenge then is to patch kdm to provide user session tracking in a pure-systemd environment. (KDE3 runs perfectly in a pure-systemd environment without ConsoleKit, the only issue is kdeioslave processes are not killed by the system when the user closes the application (or instance of the process).
Ilya has done a fantastic job with kde3 and the sources are in good shape. An alternative is the Trinity desktop (which is kde3 but with a few changes to install it as TDE instead of KDE).
There is still a lot of life left in KDE3. There is no alternative that provides such a robust set of applications in as clean and small of a footprint as KDE3 uses. I have built trinity for Archlinux for the past several years (I met Serghei on the trinity list). The continuation of KDE on opensuse has taken a very clean and straightforward path compared to some of the naming decisions made on the trinity project. This clean preservation of KDE3 should always be preserved for opensuse.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
God and some engeeniers of Open Suse hear you ! It is rather good news. Curiusly, I just received (and some of you too, I guess) a [trinity-announce] mail: Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.1 Released!. An other good news. The project had been looking dead for a wile, so long that I unsubscribed the mailing list. There were some little "user's" bugs in it that made it unusable to me. I decided to stay with KDE3 as long as possible. Thanks again, to you, Serghei Ilya and Mark Goldstein too. Patrick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner@opensuse.org