Felix Miata via tde-users wrote:
In openSUSE, KDE3 is not frozen in time. It just looks that way, for good reason. What ain't broke don't need fixin.
The PC I'm composing this on has both Leap with KDE3 and Tumbleweed with TDE. I use it with TW barely at all. I use TDE far more on other PCs, a roughly even split among KDE3, TDE and Plasma5, among openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Mageia and *buntu.
Well, I don't know what happened to KDE3, I just know that I joined TDE, because I had to fix a bunch of issues related to chars encoding. For me it was the TDEPIM part. With help of Michele and Slavek I managed to get into the repositories. After this I recall Michele and Slavek continued fixing the encoding issues in other modules. I honestly do not see a reason why one would use KDE3, but if you wish doing so, I don't mind. Because of the above issue, I can bet that you would have now and then encoding issues, if the patches were not backported.
I want to use this opportunity to thank all users and contributors that help keep the project alive and improve that code.
BR