Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

["Benji Weber" <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2008/9/2 Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I personally would welcome KDE4 IF it can deliver what I need in a
> desktop.  It's supposed to be faster, use less memory, and allow for
> the future.  I have not found it to be faster.  I have found it to be
> full of bling and useless stuff that I could care less about.  I have
> found it to be slower and my workhorse machines.

http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.html

> I personally favor waiting for 4.2 IF it will be a complete
> replacement for 3.x.

It's rather unlikely that KDE4.x will ever contain all the features
that KDE 3.x had. For one thing some features are no longer requested
or required. I see that everyone is ignoring AJ's point - If people
want to wait until KDE4.x is ready then you need to define what would
make it ready, against some testable requirements so that at some
point in the future we can say that KDE4.x is now ready.


> However, some feel that the distro should not
> wait just for one component, and while that's a good point, in my
> opinion it's worth the wait because it's such a large part of the
> system.  It's not like Firefox3, which was released just a few days
> past 11.0 and was an easy update.  KDE is a major part of the system,
> and I feel that it would be worth the wait IF it will give us a more
> complete and stable system.

It is not just that the distribution should not wait for one
component, but what is a practical release schedule. Release schedules
have to take into account factors like holiday time (Postponing
release could lose two or three weeks over the Christmas holiday
period), and while the majority of the developers are employed by
Novell their workload has to be taken into account too. They have
other responsibilities as well as openSUSE.

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Benjamin Weber
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