In <49E4AA69.60507@att.net>, Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
It's beginning to sound like the devs for KDE 4 are "doing the MS way".
Yes, we know there are bugs - however - it's good enough - so - we're going to release it anyway.
That's not a MS-ism. That's a core open-source philosophy: "Release early; release often.". Also, while it was a bit lost in the hullabaloo around the releases, KDE 4.0 was released as "for developers only" and KDE 4.1 was released as "for early adopters". I stayed away from these releases, and I'm quite happy with KDE 4.2. I do understand that there are still some fairly critical (for other) pieces missing, but it is my daily desktop and has been since Debian and openSUSE KDE teams provided KDE 4.2 packages in experimental and OBS respectively. In summary, I'd say that KDE 4.2.2 is stable but not feature complete. I'm not sure 4.3 will be feature complete either--there are a lot of missing features. Of course some thing people are considering missing features aren't part of KDE. E.g. k3b, amarok, kdiff3, and kaffeine aren't "part of KDE", they are simply applications that use the KDE libraries. Surely no one expects the KDE developers to improve ALL the applications that use the libraries they produced. It will be unfortunate if openSUSE stops security support for KDE 3.5.10 before KDE 4 is feature complete AND stable. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/