Am Freitag, 11. Dezember 2009 21:03:47 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: > I just read that KPilot was dropped from kdepim. That reminded me of some > corpses in kdeutils ... > > I must confess I never used any of the two. I you don't count my krazy > fixes from two weeks ago both applications have not seen any developer > activity for month, just some general cleanups that were applied on many > projects in the whole repository at once. Is it time to move them to > tags/unmaintained? > > I doubt anyone has a strong need for Kfloppy these days as USB sticks are > cheaper, more robust and e.g. no computer I bought in the last 2 years even > had a floppy drive. Those we ordered at work 3 years ago were probably > never used.
I'm not sure the availability of USB sticks is the same all over the world. There might be places where floppies are still needed/used. Can't really comment on that - I don't even know if Kfloppy does what it's intended to do as I don't have a floppy disc drive myself :-) > For SuperKaramba I'm less sure but given the speed of plasma development I > think there can't be much that this project is still needed for. Plasma seems to include a way to use SuperKaramba widgets. Unfortunately I'm not sure to what extent this requires SuperKaramba. Maybe a plasma developer could comment on that (CCing for that purpose). > Currently they are just bitrotting and spitting warnings about using > K3Process and the like. When Friedrich took over kdeutils he tried to find > new maintainers but I can't see that anyone ever stepped up. Maybe it's > time to let them rest in peace somewhere else. Any comments on this? I agree that we should take a closer look if those utils are still needed and in good shape to ship them. btw, it seems kdessh is meant to run an application on a remote host, providing means to gather and store the password using a kde gui. however it seems it doesn't really work (I couldn't observe anything running kdesshing into my machine). Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
