Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 21 June 2008 07:09:51 Raskolnikov Tkachuk wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 20 June 2008 10:38:21 pm John Andersen wrote:
What's the point? The KDE team know all the things that are missing. Something will be added first, vote for that with bug report. How about: Don't release incomplete software without explicitly labeling it as ALPHA.
Hi Aaron,
It's not incomplete
Doe it make you feel good to post bald-faced lies on this list? It's missing significant portions of functionality.
> and it's not alpha. It just
doesn't have
everything KDE3 had.
Even Marcus Meissner admits that that KDE devs acknowledge that the functionality of KDE 3.x is the standard, and that there are vast tracts of KDE 3.5 functionality which is still missing in KDE 4, but which they intend to put back in as they get to it.
Those are two different concepts
No, they are not. That's incomplete in significant ways, and therefore alpha. Unless you think a car without an engine cowling is just "a different concept" and not incomplete and MISSING useful, EXPECTED parts.
If I write a "scientific calculator" and I only implement addition and subtraction and it doesn't crash... it would be downright dishonest to release it as version 1.0, on the grounds that multiply and divide will be introduced in version 1.1, and logrithms, exponentials, powers, and roots will be dribbed out over versions 1.2.x, etc.. and not actually having what anyone REASONABLY expects of a scientific calculator in version 1.5.
That's just silly. KDE4 has more functionality than most window managers. It just doesn't have everything KDE3 had, but if you need all that, just use KDE3. It's still there and still supported
It's as silly as calling KDE 4.0.x "release quality" just because it doesn't crash. If I wanted that, I would just run XFCE.
Anders
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