On Saturday 26 January 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
"KDE 4 final" it is not. It's KDE 4.0, which is a .0 release of a new generation. And yes, it may have some unfinished features and it's definitly not on par with KDE3 - on some edges it never wanted to be, one some it just isn't there yet. (...) So you're saying because you can't move your panel, the whole is useless? Thanks for the flowers.
Greetings, Stephan
First I may have been a little overcarried in my wording, however... I think it's a bad idea to name .0 a beta version (and even beta is still too much). I've been using KDE from 0.4 (and I hope I can carry on). KDE 0.4 was not named KDE 1.0, the numbering made clear it was work in progress, and most of it was usable. KDE 4.0 has hit the web as "KDE 4 has been released", which lets (at least me) believe this is a first, usable version of version 4, which it is not. From various readings on the net I'm not the only one who feels that way. Of course I know the programmers of KDE 4.0 are good (much better than I am, anyway). But why "release" it as .0 ?? .0 should mean it's ready (even if it will get better), what I have got (unless whoever put the live demo together really screwed it) is a technical preview, not more. I know Apple goes that way (at least they did with OS X 10.0, and they charged for it !), but even Vista .0 can be used for everyday business, and I can't figure KDE 4.0 could. I read that some distribution may appear that would install 4.0 as the default desktop, that would be a (bad) joke. So to sum it up: now that I understand it's way not finished, I say: thanks for the work, but call it what it is. And regarding the panel, if you compare a 3.5.x kicker with what 4.0 has to offer, yes I think the KDE 4.0 version is just, plain, useless. Thierry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org