Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fredag 05 september 2008 19:57:36 skrev Fred A. Miller:
> Michael Loeffler wrote:
> > We'll try to put again both KDEs on the media. 

> Ok......thanks! I think all we need, ASSUMING KDE 4.2 is a FULL COMPLETE
> release for KDE 3.5, is to have 3.5 included with the next release of
> openSUSE.
> It can be dropped after that.

It's still unknown when 11.2 is released - it might even have KDE 4.3 - if 
it's released in the fall of 2009 - which I consider likely given that 2009 is 
SLE year which will absorb much developer time.

But I can tell you right now with 100% certainty that neither KDE 4.2 nor 4.3 
will be identical with KDE 3.5. And it's still extremely vague what you guys 
define as "full complete", to say the least.

Besides a couple of missing features and a few bugs, are only part of what 
people complain about regarding KDE4 - backwards compatibility of settings and 
simply being "different" are just as prominent complaints - and those 
"problems" are not exactly likely to diminish over time imho.

Furthermore, openSUSE 11.1 may attract hordes of these types of users from 
other distros, since it'll be the only major distro still shipping KDE3 on the 
media at that time (well, along with Debian Lenny). Therefore I think it's 
likely we'll still see a substantial segment of users demanding KDE3 at 11.2 
time, maybe even bigger than now ;-)

So I think we should make an effort to communicate very clearly that 11.1 will 
be the very last release officially supporting KDE3 - and that attaching 
yourself deeper into a legacy desktop with no future, is probably not a very 
good idea for most people in the long run.
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