On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin@kde.org wrote:
Right away AFAIK we would lose DCOP integration,
which should not be any issue for a window manager. Window managers use X for IPC as well you get D-Bus integration.
don't get me started on d-bus :)
Given that in the long run you want to migrate to Qt 4
no, martin, they don't. they want to use QT3, stay there, and continue to maintain QT3 as a proper honest-to-god _real_ and _active_ Free Software Community Project (*1). it consumes significantly less resources. you remember KDE 3 minimum requirements from 8 years ago? i do. 500mhz Pentium III and only 128mb of RAM.
l.
(*1) nokia / trolltech's one-way-push of source code - 6 months late - is *not* a community-driven project.