2008/10/28 John Andersen
Its the other way around. They had an elegant platform, with everything working. They decided to substitute a child dressed in fine flashy clothes. Its pretty, but its still a child.
That is the point: KDE 4 needs time to grow up.
Yet opensuse is pushing it forward like it is ready to take on an Adult role. Form over substance.
Big mistake, in my opinion. I'm sticking with KDE 3 for work, yet there is easy access to KDE 4 to create test systems and identify issues.
You mention that you want KDE 4 to be comparable to KDE 3. That is not it's goal. It's goal is to be better than KDE 3.
Its failed miserably. By the way... How can you use terms like "better" if you reject the ability to compare?
I was using the popular usage of the term "comparable" as "on a comparable level of quality/features".
No, this is relevant because KDE 4 is not a replacement for KDE 3.
That is a bit of revisionist reporting. KDE4 was ALWAYS intended as a replacement for KDE3.
KDE 4 is intended to develop into a replacement for KDE 3. Currently, KDE 4 is not a replacement for KDE 3. If you can show me official KDE documentation to the contrary, then I will take up the issue there and report back.
Only in the last year or so has this myth of it being a totally unrelated product appeared, and mostly in response to people starting to point out the obvious shortcomings when it was declared ready for prime time.
Only after many distro made the mistake of shipping KDE 4.0 has the issue been made well-known outside of KDE circles. KDE 4.0 was _not_intended_for_end_users_ and that was made clear on the KDE website. KDE 4.0 was the release of stable libraries, from which applications could be built. But, they need to be built!
Could you please use a car analogy? I only understand car analogies.
KDE4 is next year's model of KDE3. It hardly seems reasonable to release it with a fresh coat of fade paint but no back seats, no instruments in the dash, missing door handles and a mock up of a radio.
+5 Insightful! This is 100% correct. The version that is out now is so that accessories developers (high performance intake manifolds, exhaust systems, and audio systems) could start designing their products so that they will be ready when the model is released. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü