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Fabiano Engler posted on Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:36:08 -0300 as excerpted: |
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> Oh man, knowing the next release will force enable semantic desktop is |
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> bad news, I would surely drop KDE desktop when that became stable and I |
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> am forced to update. |
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> Your work offers some hope though, I think the better approach for end |
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> users would be a plug and play overlay, but if I haven't read it here I |
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> would probably not even think about looking for an overlay for this and |
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> would just move away, which I suspect some other users will do too.. |
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> Thanks for the time and effort into sharing this, much appreciated. |
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Time to get rid of these old subthreads still marked to reply to later, |
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as events have long passed them up. |
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(On a personal note, work suddenly slammed me with mountains of overtime, |
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and while I normally update a couple times a week, I had all I could do |
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to update even a couple times a month for awhile. That's why my posts |
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here unfortunately dried up so fast. Work has slowed down to something |
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reasonable again, so now I have time to come back and tie up lose ends, |
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even if time and events /have/ rather made them anticlimatic.) |
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As I assume most readers have figured out by now but for the record, |
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gentoo/kde, to their credit, finally decided to add the semantic-desktop |
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USE flag back to 3.11 before it stabilized. =:^) |
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So ultimately, the only folks that had to deal with the situation were |
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those like me running in-tree unstable, or the gentoo/kde overlay with |
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its pre-release versions (which is where I am). And people running |
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~arch, and even MORE so people running overlay pre-release versions, |
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should be prepared to deal with this sort of thing, or they should |
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reevaluate their running ~arch or the overlay in the first place. |
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Never-the-less, it's likely that our protests did play at least a small |
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part in bringing the semantic-desktop back, such that it was never |
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removed for stable users at all. =:^) |
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Thanks be to the gentoo/kde dev(s) that stepped up to do the work, as |
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some of us users know quite well now what sort of things that involves! |
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=:^) |
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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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