On 11/07/10 00:24, David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
11.0 Desktop Summary
All-in-all, kde3 (except for the kde4 induced gtk issue, missing menu and control panel issues on x86_64) finished life in 11.0 in phenomenal shape. It was truly enjoyable to use. Gnome finished in fantastic shape even for remaining at an ancient 2.2.0 release point.
E16 was perfect. E17 was near perfect. Credit for the fantastic shape of both enlightenment desktops goes to Dmitry Serpokryl for his great work there.
WindowMaker, blackbox, fluxbox, openbox and lxde were all in great shape except that many of the desktop components needed to be found and installed from source due to declining interest from the build service maintainers.
IceWM, twm and fvwm2 were in good working order as well.
XFCE was probably the largest disappointment due to newer packages being available and then pulled from the repos during the last 2 months of support leaving a mess for that desktop at 11.0 EOL.
Unfortunately, the desktop selection in all versions of openSuSE since 11.0 has narrowed significantly. Enlightenment remains a bright point due to Dmitry's continued hard work. Gnome is still in good shape in 11.2 and to SuSE's credit KDE3 being continued was in my opinion was probably one of the smartest decisions I have seen made in the past 2 years. No matter how you slice it, KDE4 is still just a mess of differing beta ideas being shoved together in hope something usable springs forward on its own. It's like a desktop with cerebral palsy or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and evidently is shares the same prognosis.
<snip> I disagree with you and in my opinion KDE4 is now very usable and my preferred desktop of choice. I am using the factory version which is KDE 4.4.5. The desktop is user friendly and its development is heading in the right direction. We are of course entitled to our opinions and I acknowledge the current desktop is not to everyone's liking. Sudhir -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org