F8 update kills KDE
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Apr 19 23:10:26 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson <cannewilson <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> I, too, have certain very specific needs to make my work-path pleasant. I
> couldn't work out how to get it as I wanted, but with the help of developers
> it is doing so nicely.
>
> I fear you are right, but I hope that many people will have some patience and
> give the new ways a fair trial.
Thanks for your trust.
We're doing what we can to make Plasma fully usable in Fedora 9. For example, I
just applied a patch from the openSUSE branch which makes moving applets in the
panel possible, see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439587
I know the developers from upstream KDE and from openSUSE and other
distributions are also hard at work fixing the usability regressions, in fact
we got a lot of those fixes for free with the 4.0.3 upgrade thanks to the
Plasma backports which were done in upstream KDE, and several of the patches we
apply to KDE 4 are also their work.
For those who feel Fedora 9 is not ready for them yet, I recommend to simply
stay on Fedora 8, nobody forces you to upgrade right now, Fedora 8 will get
updates until 1 month after the release of Fedora 10. Meanwhile, Fedora 9 will
also get upgrades, so you don't necessarily have to wait for Fedora 10 either.
We are planning to push KDE 4.1 as a Fedora 9 upgrade once it's available, I
hope that will work out, because it will be a big improvement.
Kevin Kofler
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