KDE 4...

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 15 May 2008 09:18:05 am Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 18:20 -0400, Mike Chalmers wrote:
> > What do y'all think of KDE 4? It doesn't seem to be as technical as
> > KDE 3 to me, I don't like that. The system configuration lacks
> > options, I can't figure out how to get things the way that I want
> > them, etc. I am not saying that it is not good, though. That maybe it
> > just needs more options.
> >
> > Just wondering what y'all thought.
>
> IMHO, KDE4-release was underwhelming and shouldn't have been released
> until it reached feature a parity with KDE 3.5.x.
> IMO, bugs and crashes can be forgiven - but not having an option to set
> the order of applets on a panel (only added in 4.0.3?) or change the
> appearance of the panel was inexcusable.
>
Why?  What exactly do you want to do that you can't?  It's true that 
improvements are coming all the time, but the panel arrangement, for example, 
arrived in time for F9 release.

> Having said all that, the development of KDE 4.1 is showing great
> promise and unless something bad happens, it should be a viable KDE
> 3.5.x replacement.
>
> As for me, I'm sticking with F8/3.5.9 (and CentOS5/3.5.9) - while
> keeping a close eye on Rawhide/4.1. Once it 4.1 hits F9, I'll make the
> switch.
>
The trouble with that approach is that the developers don't get the useful 
feedback.  There's only so much they can do without users.

Anne


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