On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 22:47:45 -0700 Riley Bell via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I love TDE and want to contribute to it but is it worth it? I've been in the > devels mailing list for a couple weeks now and there haven't been any new > messages. The dev list tends to be used mostly for messaging packagers and inquiring about build failures and unusual low-level issues. The amount of traffic there isn't a good gauge for the general health of the project. The Mastodon feed, @tde@floss.social , is probably a better source. Also, we're getting into summer vacation season—traffic's dropping on other projects right now too. > There are many applications I can't find in TGW like kmilo. The Project > RoadMap on the wiki has a warning of being outdated. Is there a reason > certain repositories haven't had a non-translation related commit in years? Because TDE contains so much code, some sections are handled on a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" basis. If no bugs or RFEs have been filed, and everything still builds and runs as expected, it isn't unusual for parts of the code base not to be touched for extended periods. If a third-party library's API makes breaking changes, then you'll see commits. > It seems improvements outside the scope of bug fixes and the migration to > CMake are stalled indefinitely due to issues with adding support for Qt4? Why > not drop it and try for Qt5/6 instead? It was decided that TDE would become upstream for the former QT3 rather than switching to a new widget set, so the QT4 port has been permanently dropped. > Can the migration to Webkit for HTML rendering be done without Qt4 support? In theory, yes (webkit also has GTK bindings, so webkit-TQT ought to be possible). Improving Konqueror's browsing abilities isn't a major development focus at this time, however. The Web is in constant churn, and there are other, better browsers available. > How hard would it be to make a style plugin for Qt5/6? I currently use > gtk-qt-engine-trinity with qt5-gtk2-platformtheme as a workaround but it > would be nice to have reliable, native support. Consistent theming over multiple widget sets has never once worked completely right in any desktop I've tried in the past twenty years. You can have reliability by adjusting each widget set using its own settings files and applications that target them (and tolerate them maybe not looking completely alike), or you can have combined theming that occasionally causes crashes or corrupts something. E. Liddell ____________________________________________________ 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
