What's the official status of 3.5.x, anyway?

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/7/12 Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org>:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 20:59, Dotan Cohen<dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can find some bugs for KDE 3 closed as UNMAINTAINED. Here are just two:
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144920
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148778
>
> Yes because the maintainers of those programs decided to spend their
> time on the KDE 4 version of it or not at all any longer on the
> program. Anne has explained this before. The KDE community can not
> dictate and does not want to dictate who has to maintain a program for
> how long. If there is someone to add more fixes to the KDE 3 version
> of those programs please come and talk to me offlist. I will arrange
> something.
>

Exactly, so KDE 3 is unmaintained. Don't get mad, but don't say "the
maintainers of those programs decided to spend their time on the KDE 4
version of it or not at all any longer on the program." and then claim
that KDE 3 is still maintained. It is not.


> We will end this discussion here now. There is no use in having it for
> the 100th time.

Sure, let's end it here with the truth: KDE 3 is unmaintained. Those
who use it must switch to another desktop. If KDE 4 supports all that
they need, then they can switch to KDE 4. If not, then XFCE and Gnome
are very respectable desktop environments and should be considered.
Some of the boxen are pretty decent as well.


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