On Sunday 27 May 2018 12:48:57 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

>
> > Even if he does
> > not participate actively on TDE anymore, what he provides is still of
> > great value, probably of a few hundreds of dollars per months. Please
> > consider TDE to be in maintenance mode, with changes made only to make it
> > still work on newer linux systems.
>
>  that's precisely why i recommend it for my clients, as it is *not*
> modified / enhanced / feature-upgraded and so on.  my clients are
> *specifically* used to KDE 3.5 and it would be an unmitigated disaster
> for it to be "upgraded".

And they are not enough devs to fix
bugs or to update to new standards.