On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:50:20PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Bill Kontos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected] > >> wrote: > > > >> please do distribute to interested parties / lists, TDE (aka KDE 3.5) > >> is strategically quite important as it's one of the remaining > >> comprehensive desktop environments that is also light-weight and > >> relevant. > >> > >> l. > > > > > > I don't understand the point of this DE at all. DEs like Mate and Cinnamon > > have the exact same goal of offering a traditional and familiar desktop but > > with newer backends. Is there any specific reasons as to why this is better > > ? > > they're not based on gnome (which in turn is based on GTK). that > alone is good enough reason. the TDE maintainers have become the > de-facto maintainers of qt3. qt3 is the only version of qt which is > not bloated beyond sanity. if it wasn't for TDE, qt3 would have long > ago become abandonware. > > there are many other reasons but these are the ones that i can > immediately think of.
Just wondering ... are they infested with systemd? dbus? pulseaudio? -- hendrik k _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
