Re: KDE Usability survey
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On Donnerstag, 13. März 2003 22:16, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 March 2003 01:08, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 12 March 2003 21:27, Randy Kramer wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > > * The optimization effort currently going on in kde.
> > >
> > > I wasn't really aware of this :-)
>
> ditto :-)
>
> > It would be interesting to know why the bleeding edge people insist on
> > using old hardware.
>
> - we like pushing the envelope in all directions
> - crippling a nice new machine with unstable software
> doesn't always work
> - easiest way out of a compatibility issue
>
> > If you think that you want to draw people from win95 on a P100
> > to to linux offering KDE3.1 you miss your audience.
>
> I don't think the audience is missed, maybe small, and probably best
> targeted (can't expect to do all of KDE3+ on an old slow box, at least
> not all at the same time).
>
> <...>
>
> > I really hope I am wrong and that somebody is still developing the KDE1
> > and
>
> Debian Weekly News - February 11th, 2003:
> ...the [3]Turbo Desktop Environment aimed at users with older
> computers who still want to run a proper desktop. It is based on KDE 1
> and Debian.
>
> 3. http://www.liniso.de/tde/
>
> Anyone used TDE yet?
No, but you're running into a different type of problem. KDE 1 was using Qt 1
which is not free software, hence the reason why KDE 1 wasn't part of debian.
Ralf
>
>
> - Bruce
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