On Monday 02 February 2009 11:38:04 jdd wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit :
After having played with KDE 4.2 for a few days, I'm happy about KDE development again. KDE 4.2 is not there yet, but it hasn't even had it's first maintenance release -- KDE 3.5 has had *10*, and there are still issues in KDE 3.5 that I worked around without even thinking about it because they'd affected KDE 3 so long.
problem is why is this called KDE4 when it should be named Plasmoid 0.1...
Because plasma is only one of the new frameworks in KDE 4. KDE 4 uses KDE 3 ported to Qt 4 as a foundation, then adds multiple "pillars": Plasma, Phonon, Solid, Decibel, Akonadi, Nepomuk, and Soprano to name a few. Finally, KDE ships with a variety of application that use the pillars and foundation. I agree that KDE 4.0 and 4.1 didn't deserve those names. I think it would have been better to simply call them KDE 4.Alpha and KDE 4.Beta because they were *not* ready. (4.0 was for developers only; 4.1 was for early adopters.) KDE 4.2 is the first one that really feels like KDE. It doesn't feel like KDE 3.5... more like KDE 3.2 or 3.3.0 but it does deserve the KDE name, IMHO. KDE 4.2.0 still is not as good as KDE 3.5.10, but it is something I can use day-in and day-out.
and 4.2 is better but far from good (for example the taskbar is mostly unreadable just now, blurred...)
Odd, I'm not seeing that here. Could it be some desktop effect that you've enabled? My taskbar is not blurry on either Debian (personal frankenstein) or openSUSE (11.1+PackMan+VLC+Factory/KDE4-{Core,Qt,Extra,Community}). What version of kdebase4-workspace do you have?
I couldn't make a cut/paste yesterday with dolphin and was obliged to revert to Konq.
I'm not entirely sold on Dolphin. I still use Konq for my file management, but that just because I'm used to it.
I can't understand why the kde team feeled obliged to rewrite all. Make a better failure than Microsoft?
A lot of the "rewrite" was required for the port to Qt4 and/or Windows. It would have been done independent of any of the pillars. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/