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: > > 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 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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