On Wednesday 21 November 2007 10:33:19 am Filip Brcic wrote:
Дана среда 21 новембар 2007, Philippe Landau је написао(ла):
Originally a version with limited usability was called alpha, if they now call it release candidate that says a lot. Is buggy software good for business ?
KDE 4.0 is a complete rewrite of the KDE using Qt4 library. It introduces various improvements (go look techbase.kde.org), but it is still untested. I wouldn't be too hasty with tagging KDE4 as buggy software. I'd say that due to the complete rewrite of the API, KDE4 ought to have much less (serious) bugs than KDE<4. What remains to be done is mostly polishing. Plasma desktop and applets are completely new and they are behind the schedule (let's say plasma is at betaX), but most of the other apps work fine right now and could be considered as rc1.
But unfortunatly what we see is Plasma and the Plasmoids giving us the impression of a very unusable work space. I have been running KDE 4 for a while now on a Dev box for many daily tasks and like you said many of the apps are solid.. but what holds them all (Plamsa) is far from even the "Polishing" stage. KNotes isn't ready (doesn't have the "Fancy" look as it did previously due to differences in QT4), Dolphin Folder icons etc (in Oxygen) are not all scalable. KPercentage is unusable due to font coloring and background coloring. KDESU is broken and they have moved the binary so you have to point to it (they should move it or at least add a symlink so that all users can use it). Oxygen themes menu's are "Floating" when the optoin you clicked should get highlighted. Some of those are more then "Polishing" to me. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org