On Fri 20 Feb 2009 23:30:02 NZDT +1300, yuri wrote: > So I picked up Kubuntu 8.10 and gave it a whirl.
> There also seems to be lots of community support for *buntu derivatives. Be careful whether this applies to kubuntu as well as ubuntu. > The bad: > KDE 4.1 seems less configurable than KDE 3.5. You have a misconception here. That is purely a KDE issue. The distro issue is elsewhere. KDE 3 had the rug pulled out underneath by qt3 being discontinued. qt4 is not a drop-in replacement, resulting in the need for rewriting much of KDE as I understand. This is both a vurse and an apportunity. Now whereas gnome has unlimited resources, KDE does not, so things take a little while. (Still, the KDE team managed to backport a hell of a lot of stuff, and 3.x apps work under 4.x and 4.x apps under 3.x - the gnome team tried hard, conceded failure and gave up.) So KDE 4.0 is, let's say, proof of concept, 4.1 is getting there but definitely hasn't arrived (see all the beating SUSE got for 11.0), but 4.2 is quiet usable, though not all of 3.x as been forward ported yet. Bottom line, if you want KDE, and kubuntu 8.10 gives you neither 3.5 nor 4.2, you made a bad choice of distro. From the distro's point of view it was unfortunate release timing management (can't release 4.2 when that isn't out then). As everybody does anyway you might as well blame the distro if it makes you feel better, even if it isn't quite accurate. What you can blame kubuntu for is not giving you 3.x as an option, until their 4.x offering is usably stable. But you decided to go with it. You'll have the same problem with any distro with KDE 4.1. I can still offer you a choice of a pretty well functioning KDE 3.5 and 4.2 in openSUSE 11.1. The other day you wanted the disks before I was home from work so no luck there. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
