On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:10:18 +0100 Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame@kde.org> wrote:
Neil Rickert wrote:
At present Plasma 5 is not ready for prime time. It is cripple-ware. I'm seriously considering reinstalling Tumbleweed (and KDE4).
Did you read the whole mail that introduced this thread, in particular the last paragraph? I asked for constructive feedback. "Cripple-ware" is not constructive feedback.
Bear in mind that the soon-to-be-released 5.3 version is much improved compared to the current 5.2. I wouldn't have recommended 5.3 for default if it weren't.
The problem I had when I thought about whether to take part in this survey and which way to go is that I'd be voting on something I hadn't seen, i.e. 5.3. The state of 5.2 at the time this thread started was that it was an alpha version and, for me, completely unusable. However, with the last update it became a beta version - having a working file manager helped a lot! In respect of the progress I'm seeing, this is a lot like KDE4 which only became usable at about version 4.3. As I commented during the introduction of KDE4, I strongly felt that it was being released too soon and should have remained in alpha and beta releases until issuing 4.3 as 4.0. The problems with early versions of KDE4 meant, for me, lost data due to malfunctioning file managers; that's not something I want to suffer again. For others, it frightened them off using it for all time and so they're still on KDE3. I hope 5.3 is as improved as you say so that I'll be able to try it on an operational machine - after giving it a thorough bash on a less important one. There's a thought; I've happily run beta releases on this machine - with precautions - but daren't even consider trying 5.2.1 on it. -- Graham Davis [Retired Fortran programmer - now a mere computer user] openSUSE Tumbleweed (64-bit); KDE 4.14.5; Kernel: 3.19.1; Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org