phanisvara das said the following on 08/29/2011 05:19 AM:
another thing is that you use KDE 4.6. that's the so-called "stable version" for openSUSE, but KDE considers 4.7 it's present stable version. in my experience, many of the half-finished features and not properly working ones have been fixed. 4.7_is_ stable, and better than 4.6. you'll have less bad experiences using that instead of 4.6.
KDE4 is a living system; "ongoing". There are going to be unfinished features in any revision. This is what you expect from something that is not merely 'supported' but the subject of active development. I drew the analogy between Latin -a dead language whose vocabulary and grammar and fixed, and English, one whose vocabulary is in flux, new words and terms and usages coming along and older ones dying off though lack of use. And its grammar is changing too. My 1985 edition of the Chicago Manual of Style was the 13th revision. I gave up, I haven't bothered with later editions. I can keep up to date with KDE4 easily, but the CMoS is a heavy and expensive book. And then there's spelling ... use of 'email' vs 'e-mail' and much more. No doubt there are people who think there should be a 'right' language even if it is a contemporary language; we see that in France where there is an Academy that dictates what is and isn't French. How much notice the "man on the street" in France takes of this I don't know, but in English the dictionary-makers try to descriptive rather than proscriptive, and admit they are playing catch-up -- by the time some words get into print they have gone out of use. KDE4 has seen that. Some features were tried and didn't work out they way the developers originally thought. Thankfully they weren't as inflexible as the people who have us return to KDE3 and they rewrote. We can expect more of this. KDE4 is an ongoing project. That is what makes it so wonderful! -- On the Internet there are no *good* neighbourhoods -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org