[Arm-netbook] Fwd: [trinity-devel] TDE Fundraiser

[Hendrik Boom]

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