On Wed, 02 May 2012 10:46:56 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...> wrote: > All, > > I found this a very interesting tidbit posted by Felix Miata on the > opensuse kde3 list this morning. According to distrowatch, BSD has > gone from kde4 back to kde3 for both its release 9 and 10 due out > this month. It has also gone back to FF 3.6: > > <quote> > I was looking over distrowatch, opened the BSD page, and noticed some > interesting data points: > > Version 8.1 8.2 9.0 9 10 > Released 2010/07 2011/02 2012/01 2012/05 2012/05 > Firefox 3.6.4 3.6.13 9.0.1 3.6.28 3.6.28 > K3B 1.0.5 2.0.2 2.0.2 1.0.5 1.0.5 > KDE 4.4.5 4.5.5 4.7.3 3.5.10 3.5.10 > QT 4.6.3 4.7.1 4.7.4 4.7.4 4.7.4 > Samba 3.4.8 3.5.6 3.6.1 3.6.4 3.6.4 > T Bird 3.0.5 3.1.7 9.0 3.1.20 3.1.20 > </quote> > > This caught my eye for a number of reasons. First, it is a major > distro shifting back to kde3. This bodes well for TDE for a number of > reasons (a) additional patch collaboration, (b) Qt3 -> Qt4 > development experience. I do not know what the details are, but if > BSD has ported the kde3 kwin widget set/styles/etc.. that should make > it much easier for someone to build a prototype of TDE on the current > kwin as Martin discussed. FreeBSD has no desktop environment, not even the X.org server. They all belong to the ports collection, where upstream KDE is still there and actively maintained: http://freebsd.kde.org/ > > Next, the Mozilla downgrades were of interest as well. The current > releases seem to take quite a bit of CPU and require manual > maintenance to vacuum and reindex the sqlite databases to prevent > them from growing wildly. (if you haven't checked your firefox and > tbird profiles lately, then cd into > you .mozilla/firefox/<blah349.default> > and .thunderbird/<blah349.default> directories and then 'ls -al > *.sqlite'). You will be surprised what you find. You can repair them > with: > > for i in *.sqlite; do sqlite3 $i vacuum; sqlite3 $i reindex; done > > But I digress. The point being, between BSD, opensuse and others > either returning to, or presently maintaining, kde3, the > opportunities for advancing TDE become better and better each day. It > might be a good idea to open up channels of communication between the > developers so that everyone can benefit from the good work done by > the kde/tde community as a whole. >