Re: Kde 3.5 ...
On 2010-05-06, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote:
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> KDE 3.5 is considered
> dead. Why some motivated person has not forked it yet has escaped me.
>
> If I had the time, resources, and ability, it would be worthwhile to me
> to see the KDE 3.5 codebase live on. If nothing else, the Lenny source
> tarballs would be a starting point for a new branch. I'd expect some
> pushback from the KDE devs so it's likely the fork could not call itself
> KDE. Some will say that KDE 3.5 can go no further which was also said
> of XMMS which spawned Beep Media Player which spawned Audacious which is
> alive and well, last I checked. As I see it, KDE4 has been given 2+
> years to match KDE 3.5 and they've been unable to do so thus the time
> has come for someone to seriously consider reviving the KDE 3.5
> codebase.
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Forking and maintaining KDE 3 would require an enormous effort. The
codebase is much larger than XMMS and co.
--
Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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