The problem is that KDE 4 has been made the default KDE desktop. Someone who does not know to look a bit further for 3.5 will choose it and find a desktop that's not ready. How does that help new users to be given, by default, a desktop that's not yet ready? By all means included KDE 4, so that it can be tested, but don't make it default. Label it as under development and make 3.5 the default.
I helped a new user set up openSUSE 11.1 in the last week of December. He went with KDE4, and is more than happy with it. In fact, he loves the interface. The only thing he asked was how to get his desktop to work like he's used to from the Windows world... showed him that setting and he was off and running. Almost everything people are missing from KDE4 are the extra things that we are used to from KDE3. A new user doesn't know about multiple desktops (as an example) let alone different wallpapers per desktop. Note, I am NOT saying this is justification for not having such a feature in KDE4.1... just putting this into perspective. From my observations of new users using 11.1 and KDE4 as shipped with 11.1, there is no issue. It works, they like it, and they are not experiencing any issues with it, and I am not getting support calls on it. As far as these new users are concerned, KDE4 is just fine. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org