I see. Thanks everyone for answering my questions. There are many minor improvements I'd like to suggest and I'll get to work seeing if I can implement them myself, and maybe squash a few bugs while I'm at it. On Monday 01 July 2024 05:43:43 am E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: > 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 RoadMap on the wiki has a warning of being outdated.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@trinitydeskt >op.org ------------------------------------------------- This free account was provided by VFEmail.net - report spam to abuse@xxxxxxxxxxx ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options! ____________________________________________________ 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
