19 May
2024
19 May
'24
9:45 a.m.
On Sunday 19 of May 2024 05:13:28 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2024-05-18 15:46:40 Dan Youngquist via tde-users
wrote:
The question is what "actively supported" means. For example, for kdeslibs
in the last year and a half, build compatibility with newer OpenSSL 3.x
and with autoconf 2.72 has been addressed. That's all. In the previous two
years, some TDE patches was backported. I would define it as maintaining
in a very frozen state. Sure, the packages are built, so it can be
installed. But is it possible to call it "actively supported"?
Cheers
Slávek
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On 5/18/24 1:06 PM, Chris M via tde-users wrote:
KDE3 is still actively supported on openSUSE.
Leslie On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 11:19 -0500, Chris M
wrote:
Your post yesterday never made it to me, and I can't find it in the
archive.
You must not have been watching during the switch from KDE3 to KDE4.
KDE4 was a complete disaster in almost every way. Real slick
eye-candy looking, but most of what worked and was stable was less
functional than KDE3 and ate up a lot more resources. And as someone
else mentioned, the KDE people and sycophants were extremely defensive
and aggressively insulting toward anyone who had the audacity to
mention any imperfections. They took a perfectly good, fast,
low-resource DE that made it easy to get work done, and completely
destroyed most of what made it good. Several distros hung onto KDE3
for as long as they could, at least as an option, rather than switch
to KDE4. Thank goodness someone forked it and the TDE project
continues. TDE is not much heavier on resources than most
"lightweight" DE's, but is way more functional. I am curious to know what's the backstory on
TDE?
Why is KDE 3.5 being kept alive all of these years later?
And what is TDE's Purpose?
The reason that I asked this question yesterday, is because, I LOVED
KDE 3, but i'm scared to run TDE.