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 vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net
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