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Dale posted on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:28:39 -0600 as excerpted: |
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> One would think people would learn from KDE that stopping support for |
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> one to favor the new one makes people . . . upset. I guess some people |
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> never learn tho. |
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Well, the grub thing has been going on for years, from well before kde4. |
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It was just hidden better, because as I said, it's a small enough program |
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that the distributions could reasonably take up the slack. |
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It seems trinity is doing the same with kde3, but it took long enough to |
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pick it up that the gap was very visible to users, and it remains to be |
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seen how well they'll do. But I do wish them well, it's actually possible |
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to do with FLOSS, and if things go well, here in a few years we'll have a |
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qt (by then qt4) based "lite" desktop, with trinity or whatever they've |
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decided to call it by then, parallel on the qt side, to the gtk-based xfce |
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on the gtk side. Perhaps that's the best of both worlds, but it would |
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have been nice had that support gap never had to happen. <shrug> |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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