why does suse continue to ship two kde if kde2 is considered stable and are the kde2.1 for 7.0 good for 7.1?????
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:19:11PM -0500, landy Roman wrote:
why does suse continue to ship two kde if kde2 is considered stable
SuSE 7.1 ships with KDE 2.0.1 as the default desktop.
and are the kde2.1 for 7.0 good for 7.1?????
They will probably work, but there are KDE 2.1 RPMs available from the KDE mirror sites. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!"
On Monday 05 March 2001 13:19, you wrote:
why does suse continue to ship two kde if kde2 is considered stable
and are the kde2.1 for 7.0 good for 7.1?????
When I installed 7.0 I decided to focus on KDE2. So, I stripped KDE1 and QT-1.4.x and used only software that would compile under KDE3 with Qt-2.2.3. I lost several good programs because the authors had not fully transitioned from QT-1.x to Qt-2.x. You needed to have KDE1 libraries along with KDE2 libraries in order for the programs to run.. Programs like KDevelop, Quanta+, BibleTime (which still won't compile or run), QCad... and others. Hopefully, in the not to distant future, they will upgrade everthing to require only KDE2 and Qt-2.x. One thing that is causing this situtation is the EXTREMELY RAPID pace of software development in both Linux and KDE and QT. Can't say anything about GNOME cause I don't use it. JLK
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Jerry Kreps wrote:
On Monday 05 March 2001 13:19, you wrote:
why does suse continue to ship two kde if kde2 is considered stable
and are the kde2.1 for 7.0 good for 7.1?????
When I installed 7.0 I decided to focus on KDE2. So, I stripped KDE1 and QT-1.4.x and used only software that would compile under KDE3 with Qt-2.2.3. I lost several good programs because the authors had not fully transitioned from QT-1.x to Qt-2.x.
That's why we keep the old libs around.
You needed to have KDE1 libraries along with KDE2 libraries in order for the programs to run.. Programs like KDevelop, Quanta+, BibleTime (which still won't compile or run), QCad... and others.
BTW: Quanta+ and KDevelop have been converted already.
Hopefully, in the not to distant future, they will upgrade everthing to require only KDE2 and Qt-2.x.
Exactly. And as long as this hasn't happened, we will still provide the base libraries that are required to run those KDE1 apps. Fortunately we can provide both versions in parallel without messing around too much.
One thing that is causing this situtation is the EXTREMELY RAPID pace of software development in both Linux and KDE and QT. Can't say anything about GNOME cause I don't use it.
I am very impressed about the pace of devopment in the KDE project, too. I just had a look at GNOME 1.3 and was not impressed at all. The eyecandy is wearing off and I do not see any new functionality. And most of the neat features of Nautilus are implemented in Konqueror by now as well. That's why I started learning C++ :) Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany You tell 'em Church Bell, I told you.
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