On 2024-05-18 15:46:40 Dan Youngquist via tde-users wrote: > On 5/18/24 1:06 PM, Chris M via tde-users wrote: > > On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 11:19 -0500, Chris M wrote: > >> 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. > > 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. KDE3 is still actively supported on openSUSE. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
