Where the h%^&^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part II

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 06:13:11 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton <pemboa <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> How so? I think they underestimated how many freeloaders would bitch
>> about not having what they want when they want it.
>> Can any core member of the KDE SIG confirm/deny regret?
>
> No regrets here, we knew we had to upgrade to KDE 4 sooner or later, so why not
> now? Fedora is a fast-moving distribution for early adopters. We also knew KDE
> 4.1 would hit F9 updates months before the F8 EOL, which is what's happening
> now (it's already in updates-testing), so people unhappy with 4.0 can simply
> stick with F8 until KDE 4.1 gets pushed out to stable. And if people are still
> unhappy with 4.1, then they might well not become happy with any 4.x, and
> should be looking for an alternative. We surely can't sit on 3.5.x forever, KDE
> isn't going to support it forever. Trolltech already stopped supporting Qt 3
> over a year ago!

Some people may not like to hear this, but FC7 with KDE 3.5 works just
fine for me on my desktop.

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