Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (80 mails)

[Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 26 January 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> "KDE 4 final" it is not. It's KDE 4.0, which is a .0 release of a new
> generation. And yes, it may have some unfinished features and it's
> definitly not on par with KDE3 - on some edges it never wanted to be, one
> some it just isn't there yet.
(...)
> So you're saying because you can't move your panel, the whole is useless?
> Thanks for the flowers.
>
> Greetings, Stephan

First I may have been a little overcarried in my wording, however...

I think it's a bad idea to name .0 a beta version (and even beta is still too 
much). I've been using KDE from 0.4 (and I hope I can carry on). KDE 0.4 was 
not named KDE 1.0, the numbering made clear it was work in progress, and most 
of it was usable. KDE 4.0 has hit the web as "KDE 4 has been released", which 
lets (at least me) believe this is a first, usable version of version 4, 
which it is not.

From various readings on the net I'm not the only one who feels that way. Of 
course I know the programmers of KDE 4.0 are good (much better than I am, 
anyway). But why "release" it as .0 ??  .0 should mean it's ready (even if it 
will get better), what I have got (unless whoever put the live demo together 
really screwed it) is a technical preview, not more.

I know Apple goes that way (at least they did with OS X 10.0, and they charged 
for it !), but even Vista .0 can be used for everyday business, and I can't 
figure KDE 4.0 could. I read that some distribution may appear that would 
install 4.0 as the default desktop, that would be a (bad) joke.

So to sum it up: now that I understand it's way not finished, I say: thanks 
for the work, but call it what it is.

And regarding the panel, if you compare a 3.5.x kicker with what 4.0 has to 
offer, yes I think the KDE 4.0 version is just, plain, useless.

Thierry



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