KDE3-Forked Trinity Desktop Sees New Release

[speculatrix]

it took a long time for KDE4 to properly stabilise and reach feature parity with KDE3.

[carewolf]

Because there's only a handful of developers working on Trinity, there's no way they can port everything forward to Qt4 or 5. They've got their hands full just trying to do bugfixes.

True, but most is already ported by KDE. Just porting kdesktop might be enough for at least the general feel.

[DanL]

What would be the benefit of Qt5-based Trinity over LXQt with modern KDE apps?

Nostalgia!

[Awesomeness]

Because KDE 3 is build around Qt3

What would be the benefit of Qt5-based Trinity over LXQt with modern KDE apps?

[smitty3268]

Yeah, but it would have been better ported. KDE4 wasn't just porting to Qt4, it was also switching to Plasma instead of KDesktop, etc.

Because there's only a handful of developers working on Trinity, there's no way they can port everything forward to Qt4 or 5. They've got their hands full just trying to do bugfixes.

[carewolf]

Because KDE 3 is build around Qt3

Yeah, but it would have been better ported. KDE4 wasn't just porting to Qt4, it was also switching to Plasma instead of KDesktop, etc.

[boffo]

I don't understand, why they still use Qt3...

Because KDE 3 is build around Qt3

[Steffo]

I don't understand, why they still use Qt3...

[gilboa]

Having spent the better part of the last decade using KDE 3 both at work and at home, its good to see the project is still being actively maintained.
Shame there's no Fedora packages for it.

From a security perspective, I wonder if switching to Qt 4.x or even Qt 5.x isn't slowly becoming urgent.
(Though, they can theoretically track the Qt3 security patches generated by RHEL or another enterprise Linux).

- Gilboa

[Adriannho]

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