KDE4.3 beta issues

[Karl F. Larsen]

Pastor JW wrote:
> On Thursday 28 May 2009 12:48:10 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
>   
>>> IF it were not meant for end users, why was it the ONLY version of KDE
>>> offered in 8.10?
>>>       
>> 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/
>>     
>
> How is it installed on a system which already has 4.x replacing 3.x KDE 
>
>   
>>>  I have had several people that I installed Ubuntu on their machines
>>> for, leave Ubuntu completely because of it.  I stayed with 8.04 because
>>> 8.10 and 9.04 were both flawed as far as workable KDE and if it not fixed
>>> soon, I too may have to leave Ubuntu.  The "end of story" is when you
>>> drive away users, you no longer have a product to develop!
>>>       
>> Again, a distro issue, not a KDE issue.
>>     
>
> I very much agree and indeed was my point in writting the message.  A distro 
> needs to make sure what it releases to the public WORKS for the public or the 
> public will develop bad taste in its mouth over it and give the distro a 
> miss.  I'd hate to see that happen to Ubuntu as for the most part problems 
> are rapidly addressed by its community of users.  KDE 4.x still is not ready 
> for regular users but has become better than it was when released in Ubuntu.
>
>
>   
    So, to try to fix my KDE, in Ubuntu 8.10 I should remove KDE version 
4.3 and then get KDE version 3.5.10 and install that manually. I can do 
that quite easy I think. Let you know how it turns out.


73 Karl


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