so, here is a first short writeup: http://www.hoernerfranzracing.de/php/wordpress/?p=397
Thanks. Will be interesting to read subsequent reports.
Darrell
If KDE has finally gotten their act together for even part of they desktop, we should look at deprecating parts of TDE which duplicate functionality.
KOffice immediately springs to mind, but we would need some consensus from users that the KDE4 application is a true replacement for the old TDE application before proceeding.
One area where I want to see greater cooperation between TDE/XFCE/KDE/Gnome is in kioslaves and file handling dialogs. As far as I am concerned this is the last great barrier between mixing/matching toolkits in a single session. IMHO there is no reason why we shouldn't be able to hammer out some kind of extensible common API to handle these tasks; computers have been dealing with file selection and management for decades; the fact that all the major toolkits have reinvented the wheel in incompatible/nonextensible ways is absurd.
The only other thing that still concerns me is the continual breakage from the upstream Qt project; Qt 4.8 for example contains a number of drawing bugs that make non-pixmap based styling very difficult. Anyone who has tried the TDE/Qt4 theme engine on Qt >= 4.8 will know exactly what I am referring to. ;-)
As the KDE4 "desktop" itself does things very differently than TDE there is very little chance that the TDE desktop will ever be able to be replaced, but this cannot be said about the application ecosystem itself. If a better, feature-full KDE4 application exists we should seriously consider deprecating the TDE equivalent to reduce our maintenance load. When I say feature-full I mean that the new application can do everything the TDE equivalent could, including supporting the original TDE workflow.
Thoughts are of course welcome!
Tim