Pascal Bleser wrote:
Come spend some time on IRC and see what people are actually asking for.
but what IRC? on opensuse there are roughly nobody... (on fr 4/5 people :-)))
KDE 3.5.2 has a lot of bugfixes compared to 3.5.1.
and probably a lot of new bugs :-(.
Answering "don't do so" would be stupid IMO.
if it works, don't change it is always a good answer. what are you doing on your computer? upgrading all the time? I keep up to date the post important apps I use. never the underlaying stuff. I doubt an unsupported kde on suse 9.3 to be better than the original one without a lot of work.
I'm very aware of the "featuritis" syndrome, but as far as guerrilla marketing is concerned...
opensuse is free, what guerilla do you see? let the others use factory :-) a _stable_ release must do what it's said to: be stable.
You might not think that way, and neither do I nor most people on this list, but from what I've seen on IRC (and I'm on #suse and #opensuse every night)
well how many users there? , I think that many potential SUSE Linux converts who come
asking for information about the distribution would likely rather use another (e.g. kubuntu) than staying with KDE 3.4.x. At least that was the case for SL 10.0. Correct me if I'm wrong but that's really my impression.
frankly these users don't interest me. They can do what they want, but don't come to support then... I'm not against such thing, but I don't want it become a priority against stability. to have the last to notch, use factory, simply. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos