On Wednesday 18 of March 2009 15:25:41 Martin Schlander wrote:
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:
That is not correct, there are still many ways even people without programming skills can contribute to KDE/openSUSE - they can write documentation, translate, create artwork, create and update packages and similar. And even people who think they don't have the technical skills to do these can still contribute - they can help with e.g. handling bugreports (http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:KDE/Screening), attending the KDE IRC meetings and helping with non-technical tasks (http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings) or whatever else turns up. All of these require only experience, which can be gained, certain level of intelligence, and, of course, the time and will to do it. Helping with any of these can help to reduce the workload of developers, who then can do more of the technical work that will make KDE better. For example, I've recently been spending a considerable amount of time just wading through the huge number of KDE bugreports at bugzilla.novell.com, time I could have otherwise spent e.g. improving code. But for people who just expect to get things for free without doing anything you are of course right. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org