[gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> posted
d257c3560805311124i5244a139h99f88a9510e9d20b@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Sat, 31 May 2008 18:24:08 +0000:

> on the klibido site?! maybe its devs have gone with gtk+ and pan.... :-(

Dev, singular.  At least from all indications and he said it was just 
him, at one point.  Of course, pan isn't much more than one main dev 
either, and a fits and starts one that goes great guns for awhile then 
ignores it for awhile, at that.  But pan does seem to have a relatively 
active user base (including me, probably the senior regular on the pan 
lists) and several devs that submit patches from time to time, as well as 
i18n and HIG support and bug and svn infrastructure from the GNOME guys.  
The klibido dev mentioned getting I think one patch from someone else, 
and it's a relatively new project (tho it's been a few years now), so 
it's likely much more a single-man operation.

But your point is well taken.  It was 2006 and the last release was, he 
said, an "intermediate" release as he worked on a couple db changes... 
but the newer version or for that matter any other further changes... 
never came.  Who knows?  It could have simply been something he did in 
college, then he graduated, maybe got married and had a kid, and hasn't 
thought much about it since.

If I ever decided to get back into it, I'd certainly join the user list 
and see what was up, if anything.  Of course now, I may not, since 
there's little reason to if he's not going to port it to KDE4, and 
there's no sign of any recent life, so who knows?

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