KDE4 WhyOhWhyOhWhy?!!
Jim Smith
jim at oz.net
Sun Aug 3 20:20:39 UTC 2008
Jim Rosser wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>
> Its only a hobby, only a hobby, only a hobby, onl...................
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> Jim Rosser
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In my case it was an episode of newbie thinking. If I don't want it to
expect the CD, then I should just deselect it from Software Sources.
Jim
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