kde3 ports expired today

[Per olof Ljungmark]

On 2013-07-02 18:31, Daniel Nebdal wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Jim Pingle <lists at pingle.org> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 
> I was about to write something similar. My work machine has been on
> KDE4 for years, and though it was quite rocky in the earlier versions
> it has kind of quietly disappeared into the background (in a good way)
> now - while I can understand the gnome2 revival projects, I don't
> quite see the point of e.g. Trinity.

Of course KDE4 works and many people use it daily - but for me who got
used to a fairly stripped desktop with just the basics I work with all
the time KDE4 was just in the way, in fact, it made me work more on
Windows XP.

My hope now is that xfce grows just a little bit more in functionality
to be roughly a KDE3 successor.

//per