Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

[Christopher Chan]

Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Monday 01 June 2009 12:13:43 am Christopher Chan wrote:
>   
>>>> So, what does KDE do?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Crash.  Any KDE users running something stable?  My upgrade to Karmic 
>>>       
> seems to 
>   
>>> have broken things.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Was on Inteprid with the 4.2 backport. But I use 
>> Firefox/Thunderbird/Pidgin/OO and I can live with the odd scroll 
>> bars...not crashing on me..at least I have not encountered any yet.
>>
>>
>> Kubuntu users are not at all happy with the Kubuntu team's decision to 
>> release a kubuntu with not quite ready KDE 4.x (as the KDE team 
>> themselves have clearly stated) and no choice of using the mature KDE 
>> 3.5.x desktop as recommended by the KDE team.
>>     
>
> Recommends where?
>   
Feel free to take this up on the Kubuntu list. There was a thread on 
this very topic.

I hereby quote what Dotan Cohen said in one of his posts:

"That is a distro issue, not a KDE issue. Be mad, but at *buntu, not at

KDE. KDE still offers KDE 3.5.10 for download, and still calls it "the"
more mature version":
http://kde.org/download/


> And note that I said *Karmic* as in, I'm running Alpha 1, not a stable release 
> of Kubuntu.  KDE 4.2.2 has been quite stable on Jaunty (*shrug* backports are 
> never guaranteed to work).  It's 4.3 (which is still in development) which is 
> unstable. 
>
>   

:-D There was a lot of screaming and yelling about even 4.2.3 :-D


As for me, I am going to scream and yell about the lack of a kiosktool 
in 4.x