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Re: [trinity-devel] Adding more packages

From: Robert Xu <robxu9@...>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:47:21 -0500
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 14:35, Ilya Chernykh <neptunia@...> wrote:
>
> In that case one have to use Qt4 and Qt3 software in parallel. I know you
> are trying to port KDE3 to Qt3 but I think this work is still far from
> being complete. I also skeptical about that a fully functional
> port is possible: what about the much-beloved themes ant styles?
> Also I heared Qt4 has some differences from Qt3 which make complete similarity
> impossible.

tQT is supposed to fill those gaps. :)

>
> Also note that Qt is going to renew on a regular basis: after Qt4 there will
> be Qt5 which will lack any Qt3 compatibility features. That's why I would
> suggest to stick with Qt3 and fork it.

Yes, and hopefully Nokia will be smarter than Trolltech and make the
Qt4 -> Qt5 an undesirable move.

>
>
> I do not know how to deal with TQt and so, and also there is no Trinity in
> OpenSUSE yet. Currently I maintain the KDE3 repository in OpenSUSE and this
> takes much effort. I also port/pack the missing packages.
>
>

Is there a guide to this? I think you mentioned to samelian sometime
ago about this; I could be wrong.

-- 
later, Robert Xu