14 DAY TRIAL // In a recent report for the Tumbleweed rolling-release version of the openSUSE Linux operating system, Dominique Leuenberger has informed users and developers alike that the KDE3 packages will soon be removed from the repositories.
As you might know, KDE (also dubbed K Desktop Environment) was always the default desktop environment of the OpenSuSE Linux distribution, but KDE3 is no longer supported by KDE for a few good years now and has been superseded by KDE SC 4.
The fact of the matter is that I don't even know why openSUSE still keeps KDE3 packages in their default software repositories, especially in Tumbleweed, which aims to be a bleeding-edge version of the openSUSE Linux operating system.
"We have kde3 packages failing to build for 3 weeks without any reaction. If nobody steps up to maintain this, I will file delete requests (notice mails went to the maintainers already)," announces Dominique Leuenberger.
Apparently, there are still people who use the KDE3 desktop environment, such as David Sterba, who wants to become the maintainer of the respective packages, as he wrote on the opensuse-announce mailing list.
"Please keep KDE3 as an option. I'll help to fix the build failures, there are only a handful of them and mostly trivial. It would be sad to drop a whole DE just because of that," says David Sterba.