[OpenIndiana-discuss] kde on openindiana

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:19 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu> wrote:

> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] kde on openindiana, Martin
> Lindkvist...:
>
> So if anyone can point me in the right direction... where to find KDE i
>> would be happie ... or is it that i have to compile it and is it anything
>> that I have to think about when i compile on Unix compared to if i compile
>> it on GNU/Linux?
>>
>
Another task would be to update Qt from 5.8 to 5.9 since 5.9 is a LTS.
I added 5.8 but have no time to look at 5.9, it should not be too hard.



>
> It's a very small group of people that are currently advancing the parts
> of OI that are only present on OI.  Everyone likes choice and flexibility,
> but packaging and testing multiple graphical desktop environments would
> reduce the time that the core contributors could spend on other things.
> They've settled on MATE as the single desktop environment they want to
> provide.
>
> Keep in mind too that they have their own reasons for using and
> contributing to OI, so spending a bunch of time porting, building, and
> packaging something that they won't personally use is probably not very
> appealing.
>
> People with the time, drive, and interest to contribute other environments
> are welcome, but something as big as KDE isn't a contribution that's
> ever "done".  It's a bit of a long-term commitment to try provide a second
> graphical desktop environment.  It would be counterproductive to have
> one KDE version packaged and provided but then have it go un-maintained and
> bit-rot or have security issues go unpatched.
>
> Tim
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