On Thursday 21 August 2008 20:08:01 Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 21 August 2008 06:12:05 pm Larry Stotler wrote:
KDE4 has many issues and that has been discussed and ranted on repeatedly. I have used it very little. When I just tried to load it into a seperate session, it failed saying:
Could not start kedinit4. Check your installation.
So, there's definately something broken IF you are only using the stock 4.04 install. I haven't tried the new KDE 4.1 yet, but if I was a new user running openSUSE and KDE4 and that happened, I'd probably run back to WinDoZe.
I fully disagreed with the decision to give KDE4 "preference" over KDE3 in regards to the lack of a KDE3 liveCD(I TRIED to remove KDE4 after installing from the liveCD and gave up and installed from the DVD to get KDE3). They are way too many KDE4 components in the KDE3 version as well. The KDE4 versions of a lot of programs suck visually IMO.
Granted, I've used KDE since v2. There wasn't much visually different between v2 and v3. v4 is a HUGE shift and a lot of long time users who could care less about eye candy have been very dissappointed. Sure, I can make it look like KDE3, but I can't make it fully act like KDE3. That would be like running Vista and make it look like XP. What's the point? XP uses less resources and has been proven faster on identical hardware. I hate to say it, but I feel the same about KDE4 vs. KDE3.
Again, this is my opinion. Feel free to disagree.
Absolutely, in many points, but it would not change much your thoughts if you don't update to KDE Factory and try that. There is still a lot of bugs to chase, so you experience will be all but boredom.
We need more adventurous people that will test new stuff. Updates are comming every week, and it is always something new. To cover many features and applications that are added since 4.0.4 every helpfull hand is welcome.
-- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. I am adventurous! I am still trying to figure out the best way to "get involved" I signed up for the KDE list, is there other things I should do? Sorry I am rather new. Scarlett
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