On Wednesday 2009 January 07 09:11:26 Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Mittwoch 07 Januar 2009 13:32:17 schrieb James Knott:
Clayton wrote:
As has been said many many many times, KDE4.0.4, and KDE4.1 are KDE Desktops in development. KDE4.1 is NOT the final be-all-end-all of KDE4.
So why is it the default KDE desktop, while KDE 3.5 is not immediately obvious?
Because KDE3 is final, i.e. a dead-end and because of all the advantages KDE4 has, e.g. a very flexible desktop that kde3 does not provide.
But, KDE 3 is a mature, featureful desktop environment in it's own right and it all works. KDE 4.0 and 4.1 are broken, experimental development versions that are missing a lot of *expected* features and, have a significantly higher crash rate. KDE 3 should have been the default until KDE 4 was really ready for brand-new Linux users. Specifically, those that don't want to take part in experimentation and development, but rather be handed a finished[1] product. Yes, KDE 4 should have been available but *not* the default. I have great hopes for KDE 4 and will probably switch to 4.2.1 from 3.5.10 when it becomes available. However, I think the transition from KDE 3 to KDE 4 was bungled at all levels. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ [1] And KDE 3 is "finished" is multiple ways.