Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (199 mails)

[Anshul Jain <anshulajain@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Martin Schlander
<martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Onsdag 18 marts 2009 16:29:19 skrev Oliver:
> > Like your footer shows us, it seems like you will get paid for your work,
> > don't you? And with you, there are enough other developer whome get paid
> > for developing KDE, so please.
>
> You should probably know that Lubos is among the top people fixing the most
> KDE bugs every god damn week.
>
> Your idea that "enough" people are paid to work on KDE, but they just don't do
> their job, is plain ridiculous. Especially since Novell just fired 25% of the
> KDE team. Leaving three people. And since most employed KDE developers invest
> a lot of passion and spare time in this thing too.
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Just chiming here with an observation regarding Opensuse and KDE4.
Initially...I really disliked KDE4 and voiced my concern at it
vehemently to my fellow co-workers, and even defected to GNOME for a
few days. But that was then...with KDE 4.2.1, I'm pleased to be back
and have begun to like KDE4 immensely.

Now, with regards to Opensuse and KDE4...I'm basically a Mandriva user
and occasionally an Opensuse one too. I greatly respect the work that
the KDE team has put out for KDE4.

That said, I find the quality of KDE4 on Opensuse lacking a fair bit
compared to Mandriva. Just the other day I installed Opensuse 11.0 and
upgraded my system to 4.2.1 with the default repos. It sure did
upgrade properly, but I found several things broken. Primarily, the
KDM and Ksplash themes which would only adjust to 1024x800 on my
1280x800 laptop, misaligned widgets, sluggish behavior of plasma/qt
etc. I did manage to fix majority of them. Switch over to Mandriva and
the upgrade was really smooth...didn't see the issues earlier with
Opensuse. I must say that KDE4 is rock solid in Mandriva and
unfortunately not so in Opensuse.

I don't mean this to be bad criticism of Opensuse...but an observation
from a user who really wants a top notch Opensuse out there...as any
work done by Opensuse on KDE4 does trickle down to Mandriva, which is
my base distro.

My two cents...thats all :)

-Anshul
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