On Thursday 14 May 2009, Mike Bird wrote: > On Thu May 14 2009 12:54:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Not that I shall abandon KDE 3.x.x until I am dragged off it > > kicking and screaming. > > Amen. KDE 4 has been out well over a year. In fact it's more than > two years since the first test release. I've tried it a two or three > times and always run away screaming. There's no way I can force that > on my users.
I've done my share of complaining about KDE 4, here and elsewhere. Konqueror (as browser and filemanager), Akregator, and Plasma still regularly crash for me. I really hope that the most severe of these problems will be history soon. There are annoyingly missing missing or broken features as compared to 3.5.x. Several choices, mostly in the PIM area, seem misguided to me, more for the benefit of imagined corporate users than actual users. Still, I'm convinced that KDE 4 is the way forward. The underlying architectural changes, as far as I've come to know them, look like solid improvements to me. The problem with KDE 4 is neither stability nor missing or broken features. The problem is that it is billed as the current *release* of KDE, although judging it on its own (stability, misfeatures) as well as comparing it to KDE 3.5.x, shows that it is pretty clearly not ready for prime time. As a programmer myself, I fully appreciate the situation. It's much more enjoyable to develop something from scratch, implement exciting new features and eye candy, than it is to maintain and enhance old and crufty code. Even more so for people who work on KDE in their spare time. I don't think there is a happy solution, rather it boils down to a tough decision to be made by the KDE teams of the various distributions. Either way, a lot of users will be displeased. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:[email protected] http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
