KDE: replacing dolphin

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 23 15:34:58 UTC 2007


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> 
>> There is a request to replace dolphin by d3lphin.
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248800
>>
>> dolphin-0.8.2 (dolphin kde3 branch) is unmaintained.
>> d3lphin is a fork of dolphin which includes some minor improvements and
>> fixed some bigger annoyances
> 
>> The process I'll be following :
>> 1. wipe dolphin from fedora cvs
> 
> ie, EOL dolphin.
> 
>> 2. call for review of d3lphin
> 
> which will presumably include
> Obsoletes: dolphin < 0.8.2
> ? :)
> 
> +1

d31phin is probably not a name end users are going to be familiar with. 
Why not just include the patches from the fork and retain the same name? 
  It is unlikely that dolphin or its fork for KDE 3 is going to get many 
releases.

Rahul




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