-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn wrote: > 4.3 is more stable and addresses a large number of items that were known > to cause issues. I would suggest updating to 4.3, if possible. One of > those changes is more flexible panels including sizes. > KDE 4.3.2 was just released a week or two ago. If you really want to use KDE 4 daily, I would suggest that you download and compile the latest stable version directly from KDE.org.
> This is one of the few areas where I have a complaint with the various > Distros. They are inconsistent with what version of the desktop > environments they make available. KDE 4.3 has been out since late > spring (for instance) - there is no reason it can't be included in the > repositories. Instead we see Ubuntu forcing the masses to wait until > 9.10 is released (next week) before 4.3 is considered "standard". Sure > there are ways to get 4.3 sooner, but that requires knowledge of > tweaking repositories and is prone to errors/frustrations (thinking of > the mythical "common user" here). But I've ranted on this before.. :) > > The point is, a lot of the issues that caused problems/concerns in 4.2 > were already fixed, but the distros are slow to role out the more recent > stable version, so we still see those problems/concerns being talked > about. Even though the KDE team has addressed them already. KDE takes > the bad rap for bugs that the distro maintainers have chosen to leave in > place.... > I agree, the various distros are making things difficult for the KDE 4 team. It has been getting a pretty unfair reputation. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrg4lEACgkQwRXgH3rKGfPWwgCeOuoeFe650SC9xg4enJmzz5qL FrYAniMTRhwMhtS2vy+ZGxtVy+LroPvN =A+aY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
