KDE 4.1 "for testers only"

[Antonio Augusto (Mancha)]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 06:52, Krzysztof Lichota <krzysiek at lichota.net> wrote:
> 2008/8/1 Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>:
>> Personally, I don't think we had any choice at least in one regard:
>> displayconfig.
>>
>> The current displayconfig for KDE3 that's in Hardy I managed to patch up well
>> enough to work with Hardy's X and just throw it over the finish line.  To
>> work well with even Hardy's X and to be usable with future X versions that
>> are even more oriented towards Xrandr and no xorg.conf would require a
>> substantial rewrite that no one is willing to undertake.
>>
>> So, any KDE3 desktop we might have chosen to deliver with Intrepid would have
>> been horribly broken in at least that respect.
>
> I think it is much easier to run one KDE4 application (rarely used,
> for most tasks krandrtray is sufficient) in KDE3 desktop than to run
> whole KDE4 desktop.
>

And then there would be a lot of complain about how broke KDE is in
Kubuntu, and a lot of people would get away of it ;)

Cheers,
KM