On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote about 'Re: KDE 4.2': >From >watching the release process for a while, it seems like some rethinking >of the system is due, if bugfixes can't be done to KDE 3 in Lenny after >4 enters unstable. The current setup seems a mite inflexible. To me, >the newbie. I think perhaps the packaging needs to change. KDE 3 and KDE 4 should both be available and co-installable in Lenny (and probably Squeeze). It's not like the KDE project stopped maintaining KDE 3 once KDE 4 was out. Sure KDE 3 will need to be dropped at some point, but perhaps sometime after upstream.drops it. E.g. have kde4base and kde3base be real packages and have kdebase be a package that just depends on one of them. For Lenny, kde3base, for Squeeze kde4base. (I do realize that this approach would imply fixing a crap-ton of packages that have a dependency on a kde package with no version number in the name.) IMHO, KDE 4 isn't really an upgrade to KDE 3 -- It's really a completely new product -- moving away from dcop over to dbus, the rethinking of the desktop, at least 5 new subsystems, and settings migration is hit-or-miss. It seems to me that this migration would be similar to GTK-1.x to GTK-2.x; what did Debian as a community learn from that migration? Disclaimer: I mostly dislike KDE 4 right now. It doesn't have my applications for the most part (this isn't really the fault of anyone; I use a lot of application written for KDE, but not maintained by the KDE project), and I could probably have done without plasma for the foreseeable future. I'm quite happy with KDE 3 and will probably be using it as long as KDE maintains it. Also, I know this kind of thinking is a bit late in the game and may not be incredibly helpful. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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