On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:34 AM, kenneth marken <k-mar...@online.no> wrote:
> 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/ > Interesting, thanks for sharing. By the way, there's this blog post from last year in which a KDE developer "announces" KDE 1.0: https://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291 Cheers, Lucas
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