From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 2 19:34:52 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536F51CD for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 19:34:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166821110 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 19:34:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at BSDLabs AB Message-ID: <51D32B56.5000606@intersonic.se> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:34:46 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130630 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Nebdal Subject: Re: kde3 ports expired today References: <20130701082022.GA2348@La-Habana> <20130701093830.GC77709@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <51D1E5E5.80801@intersonic.se> <20130701204058.GA1076@tiny.Sisis.de> <1372734337.76461.YahooMailNeo@web164004.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20130702051017.GA1693@La-Habana> <51D2EF17.3050101@netfence.it> <51D2F7DE.2090307@pingle.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Jim Pingle , Ports FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 19:34:52 -0000 On 2013-07-02 18:31, Daniel Nebdal wrote: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Jim Pingle 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