kde3 ports expired today

[Jim Pingle]

On 07/02/13 07:10, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Monday, July 01, 2013 a las 08:05:37PM -0700, Jeffrey Bouquet
> escribió:
>
>> bsdstats.org > ports stats would have that information probably
>
> http://bsdstats.org/ports.php?category=91
>
> says in column 'times in use':
>
> x11/kde3: 534
> x11/kde4:  86

I feel as though I'm in the happy minority who use and enjoy KDE4. My
FreeBSD desktop/workstation is running it well but it does not have
limited resource requirements (i7-750, 8G of RAM, Radeon HD 4650).

Since Amarok and K3B outgrew their KDE3 dependencies, I've managed to
keep my system KDE3/QT3-free for a while now, though that wasn't always
easy in the past.

The only real hiccup I've had was the recent KDE4 bump that made me have
to reconfigure some things, but it ended up working better than ever in
the end. The only current complaint I have is about the atrocities they
have committed to KMail.

Resource usage and philosophical reasons aside, some people who have
been burned by KDE4 in the past may want to revisit it now, it's matured
a lot from its early days.

Personally I won't miss KDE3 at all, and I really haven't missed it for
several years now.

Jim