On Monday, 2011-12-26, john Culleton wrote: > Work is supported by apps, apps by a desktop, and a desktop by an > operating system. If you had to jettison apps that is a shame. I > am stuck in an apps conflict. My work requires among others > Scribus and Inkscape. These have been modernized to work with QT4. > I also have to maintain web pages. Hence the current discussion > of Quanta+. It died with no replacement.
I think Inkscape is actually a GTK+ application. It might have been modernized to work with GTK+ 3 already though. > One of the overrated virtues of Open Software developement is > integration with an overall project like KDE. If Quanta were > independent of KDE we wouldn't be having this discussion. You mean because the project mailinglist would have also been gone and thus leaving users without a channel to gauge whether others area also still in need? Hmm, that's actually a good point I hadn't thought about yet. But indeed, a singular project being abandoned would almost certainly also cause its communication channels to disappear, while at least those keep being available when the project is part of a bigger community. > One of the virtues of the Open Software approach is freedom of > choice. When the KDE folks messed up KMail I switched to Claws > Mail. When the KDE interface became clumsy and slow I switched to > XFCE. I replaced the weak apps in KOffice with better ones from > Libre. But for the task of web page production two projects have > fallen apart, Quanta+ and now Amaya. Bluefish is the last app > standing. It is decent and well maintained but lacks some of the > features of Quanta+. In this case I'd say the way with most likelyhood of success is to make a precise as possible description of the missing features and ask the active project's community to implement them. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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