Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2740 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Patrick, I'll say it one more time, as many others have already. We
> > assume that the current coders for KDE 4.* are mostly those who coded
> > KDE 3.5. If so, the configuration and fuctionality of KDE 3.5 is well
> > known. When we say we want all of that in KDE 4.*, it should be rather
> > simple to understand what we are requesting.
>
> Fred, since you keep participating in discussions about the missing
> features in KDE4, I have to assume this is topic that you have some
> interest in seeing resolved. As you say, this topic has come up
> repeatedly, and the request for bug reports specifying missing 
> features does so as well.

MOST of what I wanted is now in 4.1.*.  Once I get some more time to do
so, I'll try to really "dig" in 4.1 and see what else is missing that is
a "must have." Right now, the most pressing issue isn't with KDE but
11.1 in that the support for Intel i965 and other Intel video chipsets
is "the pits!!" There is marginal 3D, but performance is in the toilet.
So much so, that it's a no go for a lot of my clients, as well as new
ones. I have a bid waiting for me to complete it and I can't yet. The
specs. are for a "current" release AFTER 1/1/09. I requested specs. on
ALL hardware (I've been down this path more than once in the past...;) )
and sure 'nough, almost all the laptops have the Intel video chips in
question....Dell and others are still using them.

> Since you obviously have the time and interest for this discussion, it
> seems to me it'd be quite productive to go ahead and file the bug
> reports that detail the missing functionality.

Time?! NOT now, I don't! But, soon I'll be taking a break and will.

> Also, I wouldn't assume that the current coders of KDE 4 are "mostly
> those who coded KDE 3.5" -- perhaps they are, but as people tend to
> rotate in and out of projects, it's entirely possible that the people
> who coded the features you speak of are not with the project any
> longer.

I said it was an assumption....no way of knowing.

Fred

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