The fall of KDE?

[Steven Vollom]

alan c wrote:
> Girard Henri wrote:
>   
>> you are wrong : i just compiled kde4.2 and i can tell you it's really a
>> good stuff even still in alpha
>> i upgraded this morning alpha 9.0.4 no on itch !
>> don't be so "morose"
>>     
>
> I do not deny there is lots of really good stuff in it. I like some 
> things in kubuntu 8.10. It is a quite brilliant approach and in some 
> ways it is a joy to use.
>
> However, firstly the newcomers are faced not with a new compile, but 
> with the live CD which is frozen in time, secondly some things are 
> uncomfortable to live with such as the login backgrounds, the K menu 
> animations. It also is missing the disks and filesystems facility 
> which I happen to use, maybe others I have not yet looked.
>
> Newcomers are also very likely to be confused by Widgets, however good 
> they are. I certainly was confused at first.
>
>   
>>> I do hope I am wrong.
>>>       
>
> maybe time will tell
>   
I too like Disk&Filesystems.  I returned to Hardy because of that one 
feature.  I am too new at Linux to be without it.  If I could learn how 
to do the same things using KDE 4 I would return.  In fact, I am 
returning soon, but only because I am building a 64 bit system.

Steven