Hi. I just had contact a while ago from one of your developers refusing to help me fix a bug cause I have the last version of KDEnlive made available for KDE3 - I am on 3.5.9 and cannot go higher as my machine will not run KDE4 at all. Its slower than a snail on valium.

If I can't use KDE4 - I can't get a working version of KDEnlive, so I will need help for KDE3 version.

"This version is no longer supported."

Fantastic. I'm left with a Video editor which crashes every time I edit a clip with the razor.

Some of us cannot upgrade our OS and Desktop without upgrading our whole :evil: machines.

Thanks for deserting your users.

I'm not sure how many people are actively developing this application, but the truth is that there's not a lot of them.

Contrary to that, the user-base seems quite big and there are many requests for bugfixes and new features coming in every day. On top of that, KDE4 porting is now a priority. It's a classic Linux story: we need more developers...

So, if you are capable of coding, go ahead. Otherwise, bear with us.

The developer you are referring to is me as it was me that closed that issue. Sadly, I am not a Kdenlive developer - I am merely a guy that wishes to make the bug trcaker for Kdenlive a more useful tool for the real developer(s). As a part of that, it has been decided to prune most of the bugs filed against the KDE3 version. Note, that there has been no real development on the KDE3 version for more than a year now, with only about 40 commits on the KDE3 version in all of 2008, and most of them rather trivial corrections of minor stuff.

I write developer(s), because there are two developers that commits often (j-b-m almost every day), and a third that commits once-in-a-while. This is clearly a very small group, and clearly less than a full time effort by a single person. As KoRnholio8 has pointed out, and, as I wrote in my answer to you in your mantis report, there simply is not enough manpower to support both versions. This has been described on this page: http://www.kdenlive.org/news.php .

The good news is, that you do not need to actually run KDE4 to use Kdenlive for KDE4. You do need some parts of KDE4 installed on your PC to compile and run it, but you do not need to run the entire KDE4 suite. If you have trouble building/obtaining the KDE4/qt4 version of Kdenlive, please consult http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kdenlive/G ... installing

I do run Kdenlive 4, but do not run KDE4 myself. (I run KDE3, 3.5.9 as you to be more specific).

You may especially be interessted in the Kdenlive Builder Wizard, available at http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=85826 . Disclaimer: I wrote the wizard, but I do stand behind it, and would be happy to try and help you resolve any issues you may have with it, and using it to build the KDE4 version of Kdenlive.