Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <49E4AA69.60507@xxxxxxx>, Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
> It's beginning to sound like the devs for KDE 4 are "doing the MS way".
>
> Yes, we know there are bugs - however - it's good enough - so - we're
> going to release it anyway.

That's not a MS-ism.  That's a core open-source philosophy:  "Release early; 
release often.".

Also, while it was a bit lost in the hullabaloo around the releases, KDE 4.0 
was released as "for developers only" and KDE 4.1 was released as "for early 
adopters".  I stayed away from these releases, and I'm quite happy with KDE 
4.2.  I do understand that there are still some fairly critical (for other) 
pieces missing, but it is my daily desktop and has been since Debian and 
openSUSE KDE teams provided KDE 4.2 packages in experimental and OBS 
respectively.

In summary, I'd say that KDE 4.2.2 is stable but not feature complete.  I'm 
not sure 4.3 will be feature complete either--there are a lot of missing 
features.  Of course some thing people are considering missing features 
aren't part of KDE.  E.g. k3b, amarok, kdiff3, and kaffeine aren't "part of 
KDE", they are simply applications that use the KDE libraries.  Surely no 
one expects the KDE developers to improve ALL the applications that use the 
libraries they produced.

It will be unfortunate if openSUSE stops security support for KDE 3.5.10 
before KDE 4 is feature complete AND stable.  
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