On 04/27/2011 08:59 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
On 04/27/2011 10:15 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Sure but compared to all the rants about KDE 4.0 during its launch,
> there isn't much talk about the fork. I have a alert set on media
> reports on it and there has barely been any. Probably it has as much
> users as Fluxbox. Reasonably successful but isn't competing with KDE
> 4.x in any way.
I imagine that Trinity would have gotten a ton of traction if it had
been available (or more widely known, if it was available) during the
"early days" of KDE 4.
See
http://exde.org for a similarly failed launch of a GNOME 2.x fork.
By the time anybody gets something like that off the ground and into the
mainstream distro repos, I expect most GNOME users would already be
satisfied by the state of GNOME 3.x and others would be using a
alternative or a distribution with a long updates cycle ( RHEL 5.x/6.x
or rebuilds for instance). In the end, I just don't see much space for
a fork of GNOME 2.x. Hey, if someone wants to prove me wrong, go ahead.
Rahul