On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Philipp Thomas
But people expext that they can run KDE3 on their version of openSUSE and their current hardware. And for that you need quite a few developers that can evolve the code.
Since the majority is probably not aware of the fact that KDE3 is still an option, albiet a rather dead end one, they probably won't know. Most distos have moved on. That's what made KDE4 the default. A lot of my complaints was that openSUSE, with the legacy of S.u.S.E.'s stability, switched over way too soon. KDE4 wasn't really mostly stable until recently, and while it makes sense for the devs to work on it, I felt that KDE3 should have been an option until recently. Stability is what Linux is known for, and KDE4 wasn't showing that. 10.1 was bad enough being released with a broken package manager. 11.0 should have had KDE3, then Gnome, and then KDE4 listed, and selecting KDE4 should have popped up a warning about it being very BETA software. However, what's done is done. Hopefully lessons have been learned for the future.
eCommstation is maintained and developed, so there's a difference.
Granted.
Much less ambitioned projects (naming just YaST as example) have failed before, why should this succeed?
There are different levels and expectations of success. Some only want to see KDE3 extended so that it continues to work as it has for a long time. At some point, this may end up being a losing battle due to changes in the kernel. Most distros have switched over to kernel 2.6 even tho 2.4 is leaner. Hardware support is part of it. 2.4 works well on outdated machines, and 2.6 is cutting edge. A lot of 2.6 was back ported to 2.4, but not everything. Coming from OS/2, I fould KDE to work the closest to what I was used to. KDE4 doesn't do that any more. It was a radical change, and not a 100% wanted one. If enough people can get together and limp KDE3 on for those of us who want it, then what's the problem with wasting out time and effort? That's what open source is about. Change is change. It isn't always for the better. Cars today are safer in some respects, but not in others. Air bags aren't as safe as they were advertised, with some people getting killed(smaller people) making an exception. Seatbelts are still the best way to survive an accident. I'd put my old 72 Chevy pickup against another pickup any day over a compact car. Too many people have died from small cars hitting large trucks. Quite frankly, the thread was about KDE3. Some have interupted and asked us what's the point. The point is we perfer KDE3. I gave up on KDE4 a long time ago(though I still look at it as it is updated). It still brings nothing useful to the table. Make it easy for me to turn off unneeded and unwanted "features" and I may find it useful. That's my choice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org