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Ben de Groot posted on Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:38:32 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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>> Could you point me to anything definitive saying 3.5 is no longer |
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>> supported, an official page on the KDE site, something on one of their |
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>> lists, a blog posting, an email that can be made public, anything? |
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> Nothing definite that I am aware of. |
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>> So from a user perspective, it seems like they're really trying to have |
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>> it both ways, claiming continued support when it simply isn't |
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>> happening, |
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> With this you basically answered your own question. KDE3 has been |
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> dropped upstream, maybe not officially, but "de facto". Nobody is |
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> working on it, nobody is even interested. |
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> If you want a KDE version that is maintained, you should try 4.3. |
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> Upstream isn't interested in or working on anything older than that. |
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Thanks. Nice to see /someone/ not afraid to call it what it is. |
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It was way difficult, ~80 hours of hard work as I said, but I'm on 4.x |
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(with x=3.0 ATM) now. Paraphrasing what Winston Churchill said of |
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democracy (and leaving aside that whole debate as off topic), KDE may |
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indeed be the worst desktop environment out there, except all the other |
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desktop environments I've tried from time to time. |
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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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