KDE4 WhyOhWhyOhWhy?!!

[Jim Smith]

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
>
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> Jim Rosser
> Winchester Designs
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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