Derick, > There's a chance that with time, effort in learning and sufficient > experience, we'll come to understand. Meanwhile we do what we can with > whatever we understand to do.
This would make a somewhat confusing fortune cookie insert :) > > If you use KDE at all, you will quickly be impressed by the promise > > but frustrated by all the things that aren't quite there. It basically > > means that if you depend on KDE, you'll want the latest KDE. I'd call > > it mission critical. > > > > Fedora came with KDE 3.5.2, and an active community of volunteers > > provides extremely timely yum feeds of stable and testing KDE rpms, > > plus a helpful support list. This is free, of course. > > > > Meanwhile, I have this old KDE on my beloved PB which I cannot > > reliably use. It seems I can get an update to KDE 3.4.2 from 3.3.2 > > only by extreme pain in trashing 4.0 and going through that multiple > > boot business and then resetting all the preferences, last time taking > > two days - well you know the drill. And then I am stuck at 3.4.2 > > again. With the transition to a clean FC5 foundation, YDL v5.0 will provide more timely updates. I do apologize for v4.1 being somewhat stuck at an older version of KDE. > > But I see that it will rankle the bejees out of me to be running a > > constantly updated Fedora on the new MacBookPro (via parallels) and an > > out of date KDE on the older PB. > > You do know about tar, downloading and recompiling all sorts of stuff > by now so why stick with the old stuff, if your skills allow you to be > and remain current. While it is not goal to provide every single (ie: daily) update, we should be providing quarterly updates available via yum/Up2Date. > It appears to me, that setting Gnome as your preferred desktop could be > an answer for you. Even using Gnome within YDL 4.0 is so much better > than KDE. And even though both KDE and Gnome are improved in YDL 4.1; > I remain believing that Gnome remains better than KDE still. All the > programs which work under KDE remain available in Gnome. > Try it out, I'm sure you'll feel better. The desktop thing is quite personal. Asking someone to switch can be the same as asking someone to drive a Ford instead of a VW. Both have 4 wheels, a dash board, and a gas and brake pedal, but they are different (neither better or worse) experiences. Some love Ford. Some love VW. kai _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
