After reading this, I wonder if it is actually why TDE is not available in openSUSE's mainline repositories, or some other reason?

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Subject: Re: KDE3 vs. TDE in openSUSE Date: 2025-05-09, 19:22:21 From: Felix Miata mrmazda@earthlink.net To: kde3@lists.opensuse.org

Gianluca Interlandi composed on 2025-05-09 16:29 (UTC-0700):

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What justifies KDE3 keep-alive as mature as TDE has become, now 14.1.4, 15 years later?

KDE3 is still part of the official openSUSE repositories.

Yes, but not really. KDE3 got its own repo too long ago to remember, so yes, available from openSUSE, but requires special effort to install differing little from installing TDE.

Do you think there is or there will be a way to make TDE part of the openSUSE repositories? In this way, TDE can be selected during an openSUSE installation instead as doing it after everything is setup. I know that the Trinity website recommends installing packages from packman and switching vendor before installing TDE. Maybe this can be done also after TDE is installed?

I've been disabling Packman in recent months. With so few remaining patents applicable, I haven't had any need for it in some time.

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With Leap 16 abandoning the hardware that makes the two shine, is 15.6 support cessation time to retire the old codepath and name?

Can you please elaborate what you mean by this? Are you saying that TDE will not "shine" in Leap 16?

What I meant with "shine" was KDE3/TDE notable liveliness on old hardware compared to contemporary DEs like Gnome, XFCE and Plasma. KDE3 was fast on 32bit when 64bit was a new thing most had yet to acquire.

Gianluca Interlandi composed on 2025-05-09 16:43 (UTC-0700):

Now I see what you mean. Leap 16 will require x86_64-v2. How do you check for this? For example, on Intel Core 2 Duo I have the following flags:

Core2Duo/Quad is v1, dead for 16.0, as are some early Core i3/i5/i7 varieties IIRC. The deal breaking marker flag is sse4_2 that is missing[1]. If the CPU is in a 775 or older motherboard socket, AFAICT it's v1.

[1] https://en.opensuse.org/X86-64_microarchitecture_levels