On Saturday 21 June 2008, Anders Johansson wrote:
It's not incomplete and it's not alpha. It just doesn't have everything KDE3 had. Those are two different concepts
This is developper language. I understand that what's "under the hood" is the most important - to the developpers. But since *most* people tend to think that if the number is higher, the software must be "better", they expect to get a KDE 4 working like KDE 3 at user level. And it does not. The "first impression" one gets from a desktop environment is... the desktop. So, if the Desktop sucks, and you just tell the people this will be cured later, to them it's "incomplete" and "not finished" and "beta". I reacted the same when I first tried 4.0, expecting the .0 to mean GA. And I agree it was both a mistake to name it 4.0 and to include it in 11.0 without strong warnings, beacuse the word will spread that KDE 4.0 is "not finished" and I bet you'll still see comments in months that say that "KDE" is not usable. It will be wrong understanding, but that's what will remain in the memories, and it's a bad publicity. I remember people advising me not to buy Fuji films because *they gave greenish pictures" several years after Fuji corrected the problem of theiur first slide films..... Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org