F8 -> F9 horror

[Andrew Kelly]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:05 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> scm in seattle wrote:
> 
> > I have been using F8 for a while now and simply put it was the only distro
> > that supported my laptop (fairly) well.
> > 
> > Today I accepted what appeared to be 'typical' updates. The size of the
> > update concerned me slightly (500Mb) but turned to horror when it finished
> > and I rebooted.
> > 
> > My useful KDE3 system has been replaced by KDE4! Not only that but X won't
> > start because the previously installed Theme cannot be found. Oh and a
> > minor issue - my net card no longer works.
> > 
> > I'd like to point out that KDE4, by it's own authors is not intended to be
> > for mainstream use:
> > 
> > http://en.opensuse.org/KDE4
> 
> opensuse != upstream kde
> 
> > "KDE 4.0 is only expected to be used by early adopters, not every KDE 3.5
> > user...
> 
> True, fedora is all about innovation and early adoption of technologies, and
> isn't for everyone.

Yabut..

Even Sidux won't yet touch KDE4, and that's right out there on the scary
edge and KDE-centric to boot. One must learn to read the omens.

> > KDE4 should NEVER be installed over KDE without explicit permission of the
> > user. Ever. Period.
> 
> Good, keep using your tried-and-true KDE-3.5 on F8.  
> Was getting KDE4 on F9 a surprise?  I thought we had done a pretty good job
> of shouting from the rooftops.

:-)

Couple days ago at the Fedora booth at LinuxTag I heard a lot of that in
person. 
But it didn't so much sound like "Dude, check it out, this baby is
driving KDE4 already!" It was a lot more like, "Even if you're from
KDE-land, you're gonna wanna go with Gnome on this one, Bud."

Andy

> 
> -- rex
>