On 25. aug. 2017 15:04, Robert Alexander wrote:
Hello GoboFolks in general,
Since a while I am wondering about QT and KDE in general.
The old folks may remember that GoboLinux used to come with KDE on
board, like in the old days,
2004 or something. This was in theKDE 3 area. I remember that I myself
was able to compile qt3
and kde3 stuff (kde-libs, kde-baseand so on) quite easily on
non-gobolinux systems as well.
Then came the switch to cmake, qt4, and kde4 and things became a lot
more difficult, at the
least for me. Now we have qt5 and kde5 and ... plasma... kde-apps 17.0.x
something. To be
honest I lost track. You can find about 200-300 individual .tar.xz files
in total now for kde + kde
plasma and many ofthem aren't so trivial to set up or get to compile -
thanks to cmake again
IMO. In my opinion at the least, or my experience.
So my question here is, and I want to keep this fairly short:
- Has the way how the KDE project changed over the years, made things
harder to work
with for gobolinux developers in general, or is the primary reason just
something more
mundane such as lack of time?
I am asking in particular because a while ago on slashdot, there also
were several other
people who said that kde 3 was the last great KDE and things have
decayed past this
point onward. And I wondered if that was something that may also be a
reason why gobolinux
may not come with KDE. If things would be more easy, would kde be also
packaged?
I am asking here in particular because I think that I could eventually
autogenerate valid
gobolinux recipes, perhaps by the end of the year (I have to improve on
the code and
look for corner cases or more complicated programs, but simple recipes I
should be able
to autogenerate ... I am currently tracking close to 3000 programs and
wrote a small
script that tells me which gobo-recipes I am missing yet... I'll keep on
adding missing
ones over the next ~weeks).
Speaking of KDE3, there is a group that has continued maintaining it,
and the underlying Qt3 lib.
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
And frankly i am not sure what is going on with the big DEs these days.
KDE seems to have largely decided to roll their own distro, KDE Neon.
While Gnome seems hell bent on dictating how Linux is supposed to be
built via Freedesktop. Using Fedora as their reference environment and
testbed.
Never mind the whole push to replace X11 with Wayland...
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