On 13 August 2012 10:56, Julius Schwartzenberg <julius.schwartzenberg@...> wrote: > Thierry de Coulon wrote: >> Seems the Attachmate ownership rather brings good things... Now, >> considering that TDE is now a "better" KDE 3.x, will we be seing TDE >> in the openSuSE reprositories? > > The opinions on whether TDE is better than the KDE3 which is currently > in OpenSUSE are divided. Of course this is the Trinity mailing list, so > many people here would really like to see Trinity appear in the SUSE > repository. > > The significant difference between TDE and KDE3 is now that KDE3 will > have conflicts when trying to use features of Qt4 with it and TDE has > solved this. This is a significant amount of work, but it could have > caused some things to break. The final result should be tighter > integration with Qt4 however, but this is WIP. > > At the same time, the KDE3 version on SUSE has many SUSE specific > patches which for now are not working with Trinity. A lot of the non-TQt > patches are shared between both TDE and the KDE3 in SUSE, so in this > regard, they should be similar for now. > > In the future there will likely be both a KDE3 and TDE repository for > SUSE. As TDE matures and its ability to work with Qt4 features will > improve usability, it may become better for most people than KDE3. > > Julius > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > Another popular criticism of KDE3.5 for OpenSUSE is the lack of any project infrastructure. Here at Trinity we are developing for the future and the present. We have mailing lists, a bug tracker, a IRC channel, a wiki, an etherpad, a website, a repository for our code... the list goes on. At trinity we are not just maintaining KDE3.5, but also improving and developing the platform to work with modern GNU/Linux distributions while avoiding distro specific hacks and patches. Calvin