On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:41:22 +0000 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton luke.leighton@gmail.com wrote:
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.
I doubt it ran well with such hardware; I already tried to use KDE 3.1 with a 350MHz K6-II and 224 MB RAM and it was dog slow compared to the old GNOME2 provided by the distribution (distribution: Mandrake 9.1). As a comparison, I already ran the Fedora 14 KDE LiveCD (KDE 4.5.2) with a 2004 entry-level desktop (2,4 GHz Celeron, 256 MB RAM) and the performances were better than Mandriva 2006 (KDE 3.4.2) as a LiveCD on the K6-II. That's all for KDE3 supposedly being incredibly lighter than KDE4 (and no is isn't the graphics card, unless you consider an Intel 845G as a good graphics card). There are only a few things that are missing from KDE4 to be a really great desktop out of the box: -sane default options -good graphics drivers on the underlying OS -sane default options
l.
(*1) nokia / trolltech's one-way-push of source code - 6 months late - is *not* a community-driven project.
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