Beta 8.10 released

[Derek Broughton]

claydoh wrote:

> And  you don't see the overall aggressiveness and whininess from those who
> continue to gripe and complain about something that isn't going to change
> in our distro as a factor in this?

I do - but I also think that the attitude that it's "something that isn't
going to change in our distro" is the biggest factor.  It seems clear to
me, and many, that _user_ opinion has been largely ignored, and that's very
sad.

> Maybe those of us using Intrepid  (and perhaps KDE4 on Hardy) as their
> main desktop are having a hard time understanding the vitriol and
> repetition and fud being spread, often from folks who often haven't spent
> any real time with KDE4 *recently* or have read things from months ago
> that are either fixed or not relevant anymore. 

I'm sure you're right - but one doesn't have to have actually tried the
latest KDE4 to know you're not going to be happy with it.  I'm subscribed
to a dozen or more KDE bug reports - all going back more than a year - and
ONE of them has actually been closed with the release of KDE4, and yet
every one of them is imo a serious usability issue.  Not a good record. 
I'm not nearly so much upset with KDE4 as with the general progress of
KDE-PIM in the last 3 years (that is, absolutely zero because everything
has been marked for correction in KDE4).
-- 
derek