On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Martin Gr��lin <mgraesslin@...> wrote: >> Right away AFAIK we would lose DCOP integration, > which should not be any issue for a window manager. Window managers use X for > IPC as well you get D-Bus integration. don't get me started on d-bus :) > Given that in the long run you want to > migrate to Qt 4 no, martin, they don't. they want to use QT3, stay there, and continue to maintain QT3 as a proper honest-to-god _real_ and _active_ Free Software Community Project (*1). it consumes significantly less resources. you remember KDE 3 minimum requirements from 8 years ago? i do. 500mhz Pentium III and only 128mb of RAM. l. (*1) nokia / trolltech's one-way-push of source code - 6 months late - is *not* a community-driven project.