Just when I was starting to be OK with KDE 4...

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was informed that the 8.04 KDE4 ppa was not going to be maintained much
> more.
>
> I use kpf in kde3 to publish a status list of what I have in the pipeline at
> our office.  (I just keep the list in basket and export it to html
> periodically).
>
> kpf is being replaced in kde4 by kepas.  If it works, kepas has all of the
> functionality of kpf and a lot more.  I have been testing kde4's progress
> with the hardy ppa, and it is much improved, even over the October release of
> Intrepid.
>
> But I can't test kepas in 8.04.  Why, because the version in the ppa repo is
> incompatible with 4.1.2, and wants to downgrade kde to 4.0.5.  I filed a bug.
>
> The response was "Confirmed", but the maintainer told me they were no longer
> going to maintain the ppa with updates, and I should switch to 8.10.
>
> Now I have stopped complaining about the default being kde4 before it is
> ready, and I am just testing kde4 in hardy until it feels ready to upgrade.
> Now, not only is kubuntu 8.10 released with an immature kde, but I can no
> longer test the "beta" kde4 in 8.04.
>
> I simply don't know what's going on.  The devs seem to have thumbed their
> noses at regular users with their 8.10 decisions, and now they tell me I
> can't do what everyone defending the 8.10 decision tells me to do — stick
> with 8.04 and test until ready.  What a PR debacle for Open Source and Linux.
>
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Well, one other option would be to carve out a small test partition
and use that to test Intrepid while you wait for KDE4 to stabiize.
That is the track I am using right now. That way you also avoid seeing
problems that may or may not be caused by issues between KDE 3.5 and
KDE 4.xx. Just my $.02 of course



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Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)