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Month: September 2012

Re: [trinity-devel] Press

From: "Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:14:37 +0200
Am Dienstag, 11. September 2012 schrieb Werner Joss:
> On Tuesday 11 September 2012 08:44:32 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > Looks like we made it to Phoronix recently, but not in a very good light:
> > http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?73392-KDE-3-5-Continues-To-Live
> >-T hrough-The-Trinity-Desktop
> >
> > I don't know that there is much that can be done to improve this
> > situation; suggestions are welcome so long as they keep in mind the
> > limited developer resources available.
>
> well, I think a valid point in the critics mentioned there is the
> difficulty to port existing kde3 applications to trinity.
> maybe a howto in the wiki could help here.
> I'll try to contribute on this if others here agree, once R14 is out.
> the reason is, I did not keep track with the ever changing situation w.r.
> to GIT/cmake lately, as I realized these 2 are not my friends :)

I was never able to compile an old KDE2 program for KDE3.5 - that much for 
backward compatibility. 

But I would strongly suggest to advertise bugfixes on the homepage and to 
release buxfixes via the official repository. It's somewhat strange that a 
user has to include Slaveks repository to get the bugfixes.

Just my 2 cent.

Nik