On 3 August 2010 07:50, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Guys, > > This is just a point of interest more than anything else. Many of you > know I came to Arch from suse and one of the reasons was suse announced plan > to eliminate kde3 in its 11.2 release in early 2009. Arch had chakra and it > worked great so Arch was a great logical choice. > > It seems that some desktops can't be replaced or removed that easily. > Going against a solid year of policy to the contrary, suse's 7/15/10 new > release (11.3) included a kde3 repository that will be available and > maintained at least until 11.3 EOL. (usually 18 months) The only discussion > on the suse list was the fact that the cost of offering kde3 is basically > zero and other than a few updated libs (poppler-qt3, libpng, libjpeg), > etc.., kde3 is static requiring nothing more than a few hundred meg of > storage at this point. More resources are spent building and offering LXDE, > openbox, etc. than kde3 required so it made sense to continue the desktop as > an offering. > > What's that got to do with Arch? If Novell has come to the conclusion > that it makes business sense to continue kde3 for the time being, then it > may at least be something the Arch devs want to talk about and at least try > to figure out the "why?" part of Novell's continuation of kde3 in case there > is anything that Arch wants to do to maintain its offerings comparable with > distro X, Y or Z. I have no information there. > > Currently kdemod3 is still in really good shape for Arch, but with > the loss of Jan, I don't know what that means for the continuation of its > hosting on the charkra servers. That might at least be worth knowing. > > None of this needs any type of reply, but with kde4 still in a > massive state of flux (i.e. you can't even get to your kabc categories at > present), at least having Arch know what it's thoughts or wishes are in this > area before be faced with any changes, may just help the distro be ready for > what ever comes along. > > Food for thought for the powers that be -- all others, just hit > 'del'. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com > You may want to take a look at the Trinity project [1] (unfortunately the website is down now) if you didn't already. It's a maintained fork of KDE 3. [1] http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/
