kde3 ports expired today

[Daniel Nebdal]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Per olof Ljungmark <peo at intersonic.se> wrote:
> 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

I haven't tried it, but Razor-Qt looks like a reasonable environment
as well - though you need to add apps, like, oh, the KDE4 ones.
Which might not be quite what you were after. x)