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On Thu, 12 May 2011 10:51:32 -0400, Indi wrote: |
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> > If it's as good as everyone says, what more support did it need? Did |
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> > the KDE guys come knocking on your door to remove it, or do it |
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> > remotely (Android anyone?), or did it just keep working? |
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> That argument is probably valid when limiting the scope of the |
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> discussion to gentoo, but the only use I ever had for kde3 was |
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> for non-techie users who wouldn't know whether to poop or go |
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> blind if they click on something and nothing happens |
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So install a distro that still supports KDE3 if that's what you want or |
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need. KDE 3.5.10 is still there, it hasn't been withdrawn from the |
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shelves. You're hardly likely to use Gentoo for such users, so lack of |
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core support for 3.5 in Gentoo is not an issue either. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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