On Tuesday 14 April 2009 17:23:21 Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
> Yes, we know there are bugs - however - it's good enough - so - we're
> going to release it anyway.

That was exactly what we (speaking with my @kde.org hat on) did with KDE 4.0 in January 2008. At some point you have to let your baby take a few steps on its own and fall over. Since then we have been iteratively refining it with major revisions every 6 months and minor bugfix releases approximately every month.

At the same time KDE continued to release KDE 3.5.10 and has continued to do the most necessary bugfixes to 3.5 branch.

openSUSE (hat switch), unlike most other distros, chose not to hurry everyone to KDE 4 by shipping both versions together, co-installable and their apps runnable in parallel. This was a lot of extra work for us, but we did it to give you the users the best of both worlds.

We are convinced that for 11.2, KDE 4.3.x (at the time 11.2 will be released, it will be 18 months after the 'release it anyway' stage) will be strong enough to remove the KDE 3 desktop session.

So don't equate KDE 4 with KDE 4.0, even if you grazed your metaphorical knee with KDE 4.0.4 on 11.0, and give KDE 4.2.2 (available for 11.2 here http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/KDE4#Factory_KDE_Project) a try.

Will