On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 06:49 -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Vadim Zhukov <persg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My crazy idea is to port Trinity (those guys migrate to using Qt4 and > > CMake, which is cool, and to UDev, which is not) and make it replace > > KDE 3 (which is dead upstream anyway). After this migration to KDE 4 > > will be seamless (and those who want "KDE 3 enchanced" could have it > > too :) ).
It seems to me that they deliberately changed the API (renamed every lib function for K* to T*) not to interfere with KDE4. If I get it right, that effectively means that neither KDE3 nor KDE4 apps can't be linked with Trinity libs. So, Trinity does not affect migration to KDE4. BTW, I don't really get the idea of Trinity. KDE4 feature-wise is a superset of KDE3, and as such it can be tuned to mimic KDE3 fairly closely. That said, KDE4 is far ahead of where KDE3 is. Many former KDE3 apps advanced, and this gap will only get larger as time goes. KDE3 is fairly big, so porting it to Qt4 will take long. That means that Trinity isn't going to have a sufficient user base, and as far as it has fairly limited development resources, I doubt that it will ever get to major release. I believe it will halt even before the complete OpenBSD port will be finished. P.S.: I am a GNOME user. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
