Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 00:06:39 +0200 From: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> Cc: Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org>, Ports FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kde3 ports expired today Message-ID: <CA%2Bt49PJjG=0JgXdCDxRSCmn3=L7spq_SdE2KRNFHMwZRRtsJgQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51D32B56.5000606@intersonic.se> References: <CADL2u4jkwV6Qt3%2BDKoSLN6d-AU-hZ2eLfmpzBXCCk6SvnKkeGA@mail.gmail.com> <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> <CA%2Bt49PKr7aV6ms3Mx8zA1-mow3ANJ-m2Yw5_bp%2Bb-cJ8iP67Hw@mail.gmail.com> <51D32B56.5000606@intersonic.se>
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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> wrot= e: > On 2013-07-02 18:31, Daniel Nebdal wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org> wrote: >>> On 07/02/13 07:10, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>>> El d=EDa Monday, July 01, 2013 a las 08:05:37PM -0700, Jeffrey Bouquet >>>> escribi=F3: >>>> >>>>> bsdstats.org > ports stats would have that information probably >>>> >>>> http://bsdstats.org/ports.php?category=3D91 >>>> >>>> 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 hav= e >>> 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 mature= d >>> 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)
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