Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (199 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Onsdag 18 marts 2009 13:30:49 skrev Daniel Mader:
> KDE 4 is currently not an option for serious desktop usage. Period. What 
> scares me, though, is the fact that it
> will still not be an option in 4.3 and thus 11.2. Intermediate version
> upgrades from factory are not an option, either, so that means, for
> openSUSE the first working KDE desktop is still about 1.5 yrs from now...

The fact remains that the only sensible options for non-programmers like us, 
are either:

1) report problems and vote for bugs that are important to you - in the 
correct place depending on the problem (bugs.kde.org, bugzilla.novell.com or 
the qt bugtracker), or;

2) shut up and use kde3, gnome, xfce, ms windows or Mac OS if you seriously 
believe either one is a better option short term or long term - all things 
considered. 

Unless of course either one of you guys represent a large SLE customer, maybe 
then you can throw some weight around - and get higher priority for specific 
bugs which happen to be critical for you.

Besides saying KDE4 is unusable because you personally are hit by a few 
inconveniences, is far fetched - especially as you _are_ actually using KDE4. 
Already when 11.0 was released with 4.0 a survey showed a very large uptake of 
KDE4, and surely 4.2 is a heck of a lot better than 4.0 was - actually 4.2 and 
4.0 are completely different planets. And KDE4 is only just beginning to gain 
momemtum - a lot of major distros only made KDE4 their default within the last 
few months.

KDE 4.2 factory packages are already a rather nice experience albeit a bit 
rough from time to time as should be expected from factory - sure it still has 
bugs and some regressions compared to KDE3, that's life, it also has tons of 
improvements over KDE3. By November official SUSE-enhanced KDE 4.3.x packages 
will be much, much better still than the current factory packages.

Have some patience and perspective. A lot has happened in the last 14 months, 
and with KDE4 gaining momentum even more could happen in the next 8 months.
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