Am Dienstag, 24. August 2010, 00:24:29 schrieb Larry Stotler:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Philipp Thomas
wrote: But people expext that they can run KDE3 on their version of openSUSE and their current hardware. And for that you need quite a few developers that can evolve the code.
Since the majority is probably not aware of the fact that KDE3 is still an option, albiet a rather dead end one, they probably won't know.
Only those that don't know how to use google and type "opensuse <their version> kde3".
Most distos have moved on. That's what made KDE4 the default. A lot of my complaints was that openSUSE, with the legacy of S.u.S.E.'s stability, switched over way too soon. KDE4 wasn't really mostly stable until recently, and while it makes sense for the devs to work on it, I felt that KDE3 should have been an option until recently. Stability is what Linux is known for, and KDE4 wasn't showing that. 10.1 was bad enough being released with a broken package manager. 11.0 should have had KDE3, then Gnome, and then KDE4 listed, and selecting KDE4 should have popped up a warning about it being very BETA software. However, what's done is done. Hopefully lessons have been learned for the future.
According to the screenshots and my memories those that could read did not have any trouble to identify that KDE 4.0 was not advertised as stable as KDE 3.5. http://www.linuxplanet.com/graphics/screenshots/openSUSE11install1.png "KDE 4.0 is the most recent evolution of KDE. It comes with many new KDE technologies, but it is less mature than the other desktops". "KDE 3.5 is the previous generation of the K Desktop Environment. It is mature and stable". So those that chose KDE 4.0 and complain about its state at that time seem to have skipped the reading part. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org