On Sep 9, 2023, 4:38 AM, Michele Calgaro via
tde-devels <devels(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
Hi Hunter, it should definitely be possible to port old KDE3/KWin styles to TDE. We have
already ported a few in the
past. Nevertheless it requires quite a bit of work. If you can provide the link to
publicly available GPL2/3 source
code, we can look into it at some point. Cheers Michele.
Alright then! I suppose the starting point for me would be Fahrenheit for KWin. Only
problem is its source code seems to
be public domain in the sense of its creator going "it's 2007, I can't
maintain it anymore, the Unlicense doesn't exist
yet, and Creative Commons licenses weren't as widespread as to extend to code, so
here's a general 'provided as-is'
warning on the header file and a note on the OpenDesktop listing."
https://www.trinity-look.org/p/1100374 <https://www.trinity-look.org/p/1100374>
If I can offer other suggestions, then as mentioned before, openSUSE's KDE3 repo is
still being maintained even now.
It's not much, but I'm sure some Trinity-Look sleuthing and such could aid
matters with regards to licenses and all.
I'll link the source repo specific to Tumbleweed below.
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/sr…
<https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/src/>
Appreciate all the work that's put into something as niche as TDE! Keep it up!
- hunter graham
Quick look into the source code seems to indicate there is no license file and since the
author mentioned it is up for
grab for anyone who wish to use/develop it, I think we can definitely looking into adding
this to TDE. Not sure we will
manage to get this into R14.1.1 though, since there is no much time left for it.
Cheers
Michele