KDE4 WhyOhWhyOhWhy?!!

[Jim Rosser]

Not to kill your whine fest but what does this have to do with technical
support?  Pretty sure theres a different mailing list for general discussion
and its not this one.

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Jim Smith <jim at oz.net> wrote:

> Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 10:30 +0100, Graham Watkins wrote:
> >
> >> Can anybody actually stand to use KDE4?
> >>
> >
> > I don't know whether any one can, but the KDE devs made it abundantly
> > clear that 4.0 is a platform release intended for application developers
> > to start working on. It was not intended for users. This has been
> > discussed very widely since, including the IMHO weird choice of version
> > number for such a realease.
> >
> > According to reviews, KDE 4.1 is supposed to be much better and the
> > first 4.x release that is intended for adventurous users, though it is
> > still not perfect. See
> >
> http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Install-KDE-4-1-On-Ubuntu-8-04-91034.shtml
> >
> >
> >
> Did not work right for me. It would not go beyond requesting an Ubuntu
> Hardy CD, which I inserted but was not recognised. I did try KDE 4.0 on
> my other machine (desktop) and am not impressed. KDE 3.5 is better
> IMHO.  I will await another Alpha release or two and upgrade to Intrepid
> on this my play machine.
>
> YMMV
>
> Jim
>
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Jim Rosser
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