On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:05 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > scm in seattle wrote: > > > I have been using F8 for a while now and simply put it was the only distro > > that supported my laptop (fairly) well. > > > > Today I accepted what appeared to be 'typical' updates. The size of the > > update concerned me slightly (500Mb) but turned to horror when it finished > > and I rebooted. > > > > My useful KDE3 system has been replaced by KDE4! Not only that but X won't > > start because the previously installed Theme cannot be found. Oh and a > > minor issue - my net card no longer works. > > > > I'd like to point out that KDE4, by it's own authors is not intended to be > > for mainstream use: > > > > http://en.opensuse.org/KDE4 > > opensuse != upstream kde > > > "KDE 4.0 is only expected to be used by early adopters, not every KDE 3.5 > > user... > > True, fedora is all about innovation and early adoption of technologies, and > isn't for everyone. Yabut.. Even Sidux won't yet touch KDE4, and that's right out there on the scary edge and KDE-centric to boot. One must learn to read the omens. > > KDE4 should NEVER be installed over KDE without explicit permission of the > > user. Ever. Period. > > Good, keep using your tried-and-true KDE-3.5 on F8. > Was getting KDE4 on F9 a surprise? I thought we had done a pretty good job > of shouting from the rooftops. :-) Couple days ago at the Fedora booth at LinuxTag I heard a lot of that in person. But it didn't so much sound like "Dude, check it out, this baby is driving KDE4 already!" It was a lot more like, "Even if you're from KDE-land, you're gonna wanna go with Gnome on this one, Bud." Andy > > -- rex > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
