Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 21 July 2009 10:01:20 am John E. Perry wrote:
> Attempting to keep my kde 4.2.4 up to date, in hopes of getting a fix to
> two problems caused by upgrades from 10.3/kde3.5 (see preceding
> unanswered messages), I've been getting this error message for the past
> three days:
>
> PackageKit Error dep-resolution-failed: patch:compiz-1005.noarch
> conflicts with compiz-kde4.i586

        So far, I have been happy with my decision to "Install" kde 4.3 beta 
from factory and "Keep" my kde 3.5 install. However, having both kde3 and kde4 
installed is mandatory. 

        There are so many things you simply cannot do in kde4 that you have to 
log back in to kde3 to complete. [footnote 1] After 3 months of testing 
virtually everything I can think of, all I can say is kde4 is usable, but there 
is so much stuff broken or missing in this desktop it will blow your mind. 
Simple little things that are just annoying as heck, like "if you want to set a 
different default WM in kde control center (like compiz), you want a screenshot 
of your desktop say with the compiz expo plugin -- you can't, you want to 
insert kate snippets that have escape codes in it, now they hose the editor 
window because the escape codes are applied to the editor window instead of 
simply inserted at text, you want to browse and 'preview in' and be returned to 
the same file, you want to use an app that relies on fish, you want to edit the 
"Classic Menu" and not go into a loop, and on and on and on ...."

(all things that should not have been broken to begin with)

        If you want to work without distraction -- stay with kde3. If you want 
to see the new glitz and glamor, but spend equal time working and writing bug 
reports, jump to kde4. If you want to "try" the latest, just "install" it along 
side your kde3 install, but I would recommend against wiping out your kde3 
install by "upgrading" to kde4.

[footnote 1] See most recent 47 bugs filed against kde4: 
https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=NEEDSINFO&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailreporter1=1&emailcc1=1&emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emaillongdesc2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=bug_status&type0-0-0=notequals&value0-0-0=UNCONFIRMED&field0-0-1=reporter&type0-0-1=equals&value0-0-1=drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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