On Wednesday 13 March 2002 9:09 pm, you wrote:
I just read at the linux today web site about some of the features in SuSE 8.0, including KDE3. I thought KDE3 was still in beta. Is it stable and production ready or are they rushing it out the door?
I haven't even upgraded to KDE 2.2. I know many people have had problems with 2.2 and the new qt library, having to downgrade qt to get good performance again. I am a big supporter of KDE and SuSE but I don't want to see something bad happen like when Red Hat shipped a custom and unstable gcc version.
The KDE-2.2 problem was a small cockup by SuSE. They didn't notice that KDE was supposed to have been run against the 2.3.1 Qt library, not the 2.3.2. There was a bug in 2.3.2 which was known about, and the KDE developers recommended against its usage from the start. Once SuSE spotted the problem (not difficult given the noise that was made) they fixed the packages and the problem went away. Regarding the KDE3 inclusion in 8.0, I can't figure it out at all. KDE3 is still in testing, and judging by the number of bugs being discussed on kde-devel and kde-core-devel it's just not ready. I haven't even bothered getting a CVS snapshot to test as yet because lots of people are still reporting what appear to me to be significant problems. Breakages in Kmail, kicker's layout and konqueror's proxy handling don't sound like too much fun. Given that the SuSE's CDs must have been pressed by now, the KDE3 snapshot must have been from a little while ago. 7.0 was not, by all accounts, a great SuSE release. I've a feeling I'll be skipping 8.0 as well if KDE3 is the default KDE desktop. -- 8:42am up 8 days, 18:12, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.10, 0.13