On Tue 25 Oct 2011 12:41:26 NZDT +1300, Pascal Bleser wrote:
But the situation has changed, a lot. KDE3 really is a dead cow.
As is KDE4 if it's not really careful really soon.
While the point back then was that almost everyone was on KDE3 and that KDE4 wasn't ready for prime time, and that we would alienate a lot of users, this is absolutely not the case any more as of today. Everyone besides a small niche has moved to KDE4, and KDE4 is definitely ready for the job.
It's ready for some jobs, if you're prepared to put up with a lot of nonsense. I was using KDE3 on 11.1 and was looking forward to 11.4 a few months ago. konqueror3 was getting very long in the tooth and failing with lockups on many sites, or failing outright on javascript, but in comparison konqueror4 is just rubbish - it doesn't even handle the pfsense (firewall) UI just to mention one of the many javascript site that actually work in 3 and are dead in 4. I was trying hard to avoid the mozbloat, but bloat beats dead duck. Quite a few apps are nowhere to be seen in KDE4, like quanta. KDE4 has quite some way to go to reach where KDE3 used to be. It's way to buggy. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258916 must about take the prize for duplicates - KDE parts crashing more than once a day and no idea where to start looking for the bug after 9 months. The only KDE bug report I had an instant response to was about the desktop 3D-flipcrap gizmos. I hope that's not indicative for where the development effort is concentrated. Gtk apps are getting steadily better, soon there'll be no point in having KDE at all. With KDE4 not having caught up yet there's talk about qt5. Is that going to be a repeat of years of unfinished deadlined 4 with gutless useless 5? Sure there are a few good things in KDE 4 but sorry the bottom line is a disappointment. I appreciate the apps from 3 that are still around and working. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org