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The reason that KDE 4 and GNOME 3 are tragedies is that the KDE 3 ecosystem is way too big to replace. Hundreds of developers worked for years to build KDE 2.x and 3.x.

We have the source code for KDE 3.5, it's just not practical to maintain it with the resources and manpower available outside the project.

If it's not practical to merely maintain existing code, I'm not sure I have words for how hard it would be to create a viable replacement. Mind-boggling. Stupendous. Impossible.



How's the Trinity desktop coming along? Would it be plausible for one of the BSDs to integrate that more closely?


KDE 30 day activity: * 3575 Commits * 219 Contributors * including 11 new contributors

Trinity 30 day activity: * 369 Commits * 5 Contributors

KDE has added more developers in the past 30 days than Trinity has ever attracted.




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