KDE 3.5 > KDE 4

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Saturday 01 December 2007 08:22:50 pm Paul Kaplan wrote:
> On Saturday 01 December 2007 6:03:10 pm Ronnie Tucker wrote:
> > I'm thinking of installing KDE4rc1 on my Kubuntu Gutsy install but i'm
> > wondering:
> >
> > I've read that KDE4 installs separately from KDE3.5 so will installing
> > KDE4 give me a default KDE4 desktop (ie: it wont recognise stuff i've
> > installed)?
> >
> > Any advice is most appreciated, thanks!
> >
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> 4.0rc seems to be pretty solid, but there's a lot of functionality and
> documentation missing.  Since it installs separately, you can run it w/o
> affecting your 3.5 installation, however, I have been running as a
> different user in case something decides to write to ~/.kde instead of
> ~/.kde4.  That keeps a functioning 3.5 install available.  Follow the
> instructions from the link on the kubuntu homepage.  The new K menu will be
> mostly fully populated; anything installed from a kubuntu deb will appear.
> Paul

From what I've read in various places, KDE4 is not as good as, nor as stable 
as 3.5.8.  If I remember right one of the developers has acknowledged that 
this is so, and that it will "spur development for the next release" if I 
remember what he said right.  Kind of makes me wonder why I would want 
to "downgrade" to a newer version and get less of a system.  That would be 
like going from XP to Vista if I were a Windoze user.

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Howard Coles Jr.
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