2008/10/27 Robert Smits
I echo Richard's appreciation, Dotan, but want to point out that a great many of us don't know what features may be missing since KDE4 apparently has so many changes and missing features we're not willing to invest the time in experimenting with KDE4.
Then I recommend that you guys stick with KDE 3.x, as it is supported by KDE. That might mean sticking with an older (but still supported) version of Opensuse, however. That is what I am doing. However, when you get some time download a copy of KDE 4 and experiment with the features that you use. You will quickly find out what is missing. That's what I do: I test drove the Kubuntu 8.10 alphas and betas (I don't have time for the RC). I filed lots of bugs. By the way, KDE 4.2 will likely have all but the corner cases taken care of. So you should probably wait for that version before testdriving.
What I can tell you is what's important to me:
KDEPIM working with all it's regular features - kmail, knode,korganizer, kaggregator, kaddressbook, kweather. I need Kpilot to work, too. And amarok, kaffeine and k3b.
This is bad at the moment. Kmail and Akregator are much improved, but Korganizer is a mess. Knode and Kpilot I don't use, Kaddressbook seems relatively unchanged, kweather I did not test, Amarok and K3B work great. Kaffeine I did not test. I will add the Kontact bugs that I am involved with to the wiki page (http://en.opensuse.org/What_features_is_KDE4_missing_when_compared_to_KDE3) when I get a chance to double check them, probably next week.
All the other stuff I use daily like OO and gnucash isn't particularly affected by what KDE4 does.
I don't know how much of all this is already working but these are the things I worry about, not eye candy.
Thanks for the input! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü