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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostThe only reason I'm against this is because KDE is a bit on the heavy side, however, within the past 3 releases I had to have had at least 40MB of disk space saved due to strictly KDE updates. That's HUGE, and if they keep it up, KDE should shrink to a very clean manageable size. I'm glad KDE at this point is focusing more on maintenance than anything. The stability and usability is improving dramatically in every direction. Clean it up a little more so it boots faster and I think more people would be willing to switch. Most people who hate KDE today either haven't tried it in years, used it on a system that really shouldn't be running it (like a netbook), or dislike the appearance (when it's not that hard to change).
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I'd rather have many small packages than a few huge ones. Especially considering if not all of them are dependent upon each other. I don't particularly like having all of KDE updating at the same time, though I don't complain because I understand why they do it the way they do.
Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View PostI'm sorry but just how is KDE in maintenance mode? They're getting close to completing a rather major overhaul of the infrastructure into KF5 and Plasma2, all the core plasmoids are being changed over to using QML in preparation for Plasma2, Kwin is being worked on heavily in order to get it ready for Wayland, etc. and that's for the desktop environment the applications themselves are advancing quickly and plasma-nm for instance has been totally overhauled and Kate has gotten a variety of new and interesting features. Sure Plasma Workspaces 1 was frozen, just as KDELibs is frozen but by no means does that mean that the project as a whole is in maintenance mode, it's just that it is now time to declare the old as "Done" so that more effort can be spent on shifting to the new.
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Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View PostI'm sorry but just how is KDE in maintenance mode? They're getting close to completing a rather major overhaul of the infrastructure into KF5 and Plasma2, all the core plasmoids are being changed over to using QML in preparation for Plasma2, Kwin is being worked on heavily in order to get it ready for Wayland, etc. and that's for the desktop environment the applications themselves are advancing quickly and plasma-nm for instance has been totally overhauled and Kate has gotten a variety of new and interesting features. Sure Plasma Workspaces 1 was frozen, just as KDELibs is frozen but by no means does that mean that the project as a whole is in maintenance mode, it's just that it is now time to declare the old as "Done" so that more effort can be spent on shifting to the new.
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Originally posted by schmidtbagI didn't mean maintenance mode as a bad thing... I meant that for KDE 4 anyway, it's basically just bug fixes, performance improvements, and minor tweaks. If you don't call that maintenance, I don't know what is. Otherwise, I agree with you entirely, I think you just misinterpreted me, while I was also being a little too ambiguous.Originally posted by n3wu53r View PostI'm pretty sure he was referring to KDE 4.x being in maintenance mode.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostI'm glad KDE at this point is focusing more on maintenance than anything. The stability and usability is improving dramatically in every direction.Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View PostI'm sorry but just how is KDE in maintenance mode?
Coulda fooled me that KDE isn't in maintenance mode, because it certainly does to a large degree feel that way. Which if I may say so, is a good thing.
But you are right. It is under heavy development with all sorts of new features. I don't know what the devs over there are doing, but they're doing it right.
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Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View PostBasically my problem with the above and previous statements it this: you're not discerning the difference between Plasma Workspaces 1 and the KDE Software Compilation. They announced that the KDE Workspaces which is to say Plasma Workspaces 1 is in maintenance mode, not the Software Compilation.
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