Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10?

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 14 21:09:25 UTC 2008


--- On Sat, 6/14/08, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10?
> To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 2:01 PM
> --- On Sat, 6/14/08, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>
> > Subject: Re: Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10?
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 12:25 PM
> > Mike Bird wrote:
> > 
> > > QUESTION TO DEVELOPERS: Is there any hope of a
> full
> > KDE 3.5
> > > in F10, plus an upgrade path from F8 to F10 that
> > preserves
> > > KDE 3.5 configurations?
> > 
> > Fedora 9+ is pretty much comitted to kde 4 now, so
> short
> > answer is no.
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/KDE4FAQ
> > The way forward is to help make kde4 better. and/or
> stick
> > with f8/kde3 or rhel5/kde3 (if you want something
> beyond
> > f8's lifetime).
> > 
> > -- Rex
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> I knew this all along, but I still have a question.  
> 
> Is there any hope of getting the digital clock in KDE 4.X
> that looked and worked beautifully in KDE 3.5.X?  
> 
> The new KDE clock does not impress me :(
> 
> I even wanted to look for KDE-Look to get the digital clock
> in Gnome, but I cannot find any places where to find the
> code.  I can compile it, I do not care if an rpm exists or
> not :)
> 
> I would like to rally KDE fans across to ask for the
> Digital clock.  The new clock works but is not what many
> users used to KDE 3.5.X like.
> 
> Otherwise, to run KDE 3.5.X and still run Fedora will be
> Fedora 8/7 or LiveCD that does not get any updates.  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio
> 
> 
>       
> 
> -- 

Here's where the clock issue is discussed.  

http://dot.kde.org/1197405276/1197451648/

Regards,

Antonio 


      




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