KDE 4...

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Michal Janda <diskuse <at> jndm.net> writes:
>> I have feeling that Fedora do not care about KDE users
>
> We do care, that's why we offer you the latest and greatest KDE. There are some
> great things in KDE 4.0 already and there will be more great things (and less
> breakage) in KDE 4.1, which we're planning to push as an update once it is
> released. (I really hope this will work out, it will be a big improvement.)
>

Do you get the feeling that Fedora might include the
obviously-not-ready KDE as a way to kill it?  I can't see anybody
choosing to use KDE now if they did not use it before.  On the other
hand, I switched from Gnome to KDE 3.5 about 6 months ago, and liked
it pretty well. Learned to use dcop and get some nice background
effects.

When KDE 4 came out, I installed it and most of the stuff I really
liked about KDE was gone, and could not get any advice on the kde
mailing lists about how to find the features I wanted.  The KDE
website had no documentation for version 4, especially when you wanted
to do something other than find a way to open a panel or a clock.
Nobody knew how to access dbus to run commands to change the
background or stuff like that.  The common answer was "KDE 4 is not
ready yet.."

Maybe Fedora is administering tough love to KDE.

Or, if the Fedora team really does prefer Gnome (and there are
historical reasons why they ought to), they are giving the KDE group
"enough rope to hang themselves".

pj

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