7/11/2023 0 Comments Weather indicator ubuntuThe foundation of every toolkit is different! There should be like a central protocol where all developers can turn to and follow. Well you see, Timothy should not have to do this but unfortunately he does because there is no coherence between toolkits. It would have allowed to keep only the KDesktop and Kicker (possibly the old Konqueror and Kontact too) while enjoying upstream support of the base libraries and ability to blend in KDE4 apps when the new version is simply better, aka, Kate, Konversation, Digikam, KDenlive. At least 3.7/3.8 were ported to Qt4, but it was before KDE4 features were merged in. TDE should have forked KDE 3.7 or 3.8, not 3.5. Unless the maintainer is very motivated, TDE will get to a point where it will be impossible to maintain without forking even more libraries and making the problem even bigger. Scale that to 10 million lines of code and maintenance/packaging/support is not cost effective. Everytime upstream libraries bump API levels it have to be ported or removed. Every GCC version that change default settings and break compilation, it have to be fixed. Everytime something change and break compatibility, it have to be fixed. The TDE guy have to support over 10 million lines of code. It is not because they were not getting the job done anymore, but because of how hard they were to maintain. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it is the same reasons they dropped XMMS(1.x) or any other top GTK1 apps. It is truly disappointing that major distributions ignore TDE superiority by not creating a TDE based version of their distribution. Today’s other desktop environments lack aesthetics and common sense and whenever I use any of them, I feel like I am sitting upside down and try to use a computer.Īlso with the latest TDE, you can convert the panel launch menu into the same one as in KDE 4. Also, the size of the icons on the panel is always the same – width and height. Of course, re-arranging icons by left clicking an icon on the panel and dragging the cursor also worked without a hitch while the space between icons is equality adjusted and allocated for you automatically such as other icons being repositioned equally. These features to me are basics for desktop computing and should not be omitted in anyway. I cannot say the same with some other desktop environments that we have today. Regardless what toolkit the program I used is written with, (definitely not Qt), drag and drop just worked happily with TDE. I was also able to drag any icon (folder or non-folder) from any file manager I tried (Qt and non-Qt) to the quick launch. I was able to drag/drop GTK and other toolkit icons including the URL icons of web sites from Firefox, Opera, Konqueror (and Chromium I think) from the address bar to the panel in the quick launch. With today’s computers, RAM usage is not an issue, that’s why we have 64-bit however of course, let’s not go insane.Īnyway, the point of my post is simple things such as drag and drop work flawlessly without a hitch in TDE.
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