On 22 November 2011 15:12, Kristopher John Gamrat
<chaotickjg@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday 22 November 2011 03:01:55 pm Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >> With that said, I am not against supporting OO/LO as long as that focus
> >> is
> >> tight integration with TDE. I hate the OO/LO file picker dialogs. They
> >> are
> >> useless compared to KDialog. Menu and toolbar look-and-feel needs help.
> >> Tim
> >> was working on some of that a while ago but I don't what happened. I
> >> think
> >> Tim told the LO people the TDE team would maintain the hooks needed for
> >> TDE
> >> integration.
> >>
> <snip>
>
> I knew that all along. ;-) What has thrown me off of that project for a
> while was the way they wanted it done. Whereas I created a new TDE
> integration module from the KDE3 sources, they want some kind of hacked-up
> "frankenmodule" that supports both KDE3 and TDE.
>
> For now I have the patch for the new TDE module (applies against LO GIT)
> in the TDE GIT tree. I am not exactly sure how to proceed, as I am still
> convinced maintaining the combined module could be a real nuisance for all
> parties involved.
Did they give any reason for continued support for KDE3? I doubt even the distros that continue support for KDE3 would keep it once they find out about TDE, since KDE3 will likely never receive any more updates.