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Re: [trinity-devel] Deprecate KOffice

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:52:47 -0500
> On Monday 20 June 2011 01:18:20 Timothy Pearson wrote:
>
>> I know as I have worked on Trinity for years now.  The problem is not
>> just
>> letting it sit in the repository, the problem is in enabling TQt4
>> support
>> for it.  If you look at the Trinity roadmap, 3.5.13 is supposed to
>> include
>> full TQt4 support (which will bring Qt4 support once TQt4 has been fully
>> stabilized).  koffice is a very large code base that will take a
>> significant amount of time to port to TQt4, even with the automated
>> tools
>> I have written to assist with that task.
>
> I see. But this points to a greater problem: aside KOffice there are still
> a large base
> of KDE3 applications which are still not ported to Tqinterface.
> They are not in your repository, but they exist. Rejecting them will make
> TDE a not-so functional
> desktop at least until full Qt4 integration is over.
>
> And, btw, it honestly thought that you already completed Tqt porting of
> core KDE parts.

koffice is not core!