On Monday 02 February 2009 01:57:42 David C. Rankin wrote:
Sven Burmeister wrote:
Who wouldn't agree if KDE4.*0* was forced on you?
Sven
Sven,
If you recall 8 months ago -- it was...
Really? I don't remember that and I was using openSUSE at the time. How was KDE 4.0 *forced* on you? The KDE project had already committed to supporting KDE 3.5 after the KDE 4.0 release, and they did so. I do remember a few applications (KTorrent, Kompare, QGit) moving to running on top of new Qt or KDE libraries, but they ran fine under a KDE 3.5 desktop environment.
Work, to a lot of us, is about a lot more than moving icons and widgets around to different windows and panels all day. It's the getting stuff done part of the kde4 desktop that needs the fixing.
I'm no KDE 4 fanboy, but I find 4.2 to be quite capable. My laptop is my main work machine, and I've been able to "get stuff done" in KDE 4.2 just as quickly as in KDE 3.5. KDE 4.0 and KDE 4.1 didn't deserve the "KDE 4" name. The former being a developer-only release and the latter being an early adopter release. (And, BTW, *entirely* _unsuitable_ as the *default* desktop environment for openSUSE.) Yes, KDE 4.2 is not quite as complete as KDE 3.5 is, but only in ways that are more for play than for work. (e.g. Kaffeine is not ported to KDE 4; My ksysguard applet hasn't turned into a widget) It's also not as polished as KDE 3.5, and occasionally that could slow you down, but not much. (e.g. Konsole doesn't always remember it's size correctly; the icons in Kickoff are far too big) After having played with KDE 4.2 for a few days, I'm happy about KDE development again. KDE 4.2 is not there yet, but it hasn't even had it's first maintenance release -- KDE 3.5 has had *10*, and there are still issues in KDE 3.5 that I worked around without even thinking about it because they'd affected KDE 3 so long. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/