Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fredag 29 august 2008 17:55:07 skrev Michael Loeffler:
> as discussed in a former project meeting we should discuss how we handle
> KDE in openSUSE 11.1. To avoid any misunderstanding we will offer on the
> DVD still KDE and Gnome. It just the question which or how many KDE's ;-)
>
> Please bring up your opinion so that we're doing the right thing for
> openSUSE 11.1

I "vote" solution a) - only kde 4.1.x in the distro.

For the reasons already given by michl on behalf of the internal team, plus:

* The experienced users whining, will still be whining about different 
behaviour, missing pet fringe feature or the pain of reconfiguring certain 
things even when 4.2, 4.3 or 4.4 is out anyway. There'll be a painful 
migration sometime - better sooner than later.
* If we get new users to use KDE3 on 11.1, they'll have the trouble of 
migrating from 3->4 on 11.2.
* KDE4 is the future - there's no way around it. We should put all our effort 
in making the future as bright as possible instead of clinging to the past, 
waiting hoping for someone else to do the work for us.
* Kubuntu, Mandriva and Fedora all do the same or similar.

There are some cases where there's a valid _need_ (not just lazyness or 
conservatism) for KDE3 due to some of the missing functionality or the bugs - 
to them we'll have to say: "Stay on 11.0/3.5 for another release". But those 
cases are few, and getting fewer every day.


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