Em Sábado 14 Junho 2008, Mike Bird escreveu: > QUESTION TO DEVELOPERS: Is there any hope of a full KDE 3.5 > in F10, plus an upgrade path from F8 to F10 that preserves > KDE 3.5 configurations? > > KDE 4.0 is incomplete and not suitable for most users. > > KDE 4.1 will be incomplete and not suitable for most users. > > The KDE devels are debating whether KDE 4.2 will be usable. > The pro-plasma crowd argue that it is theoretically possible > to implement a desktop by KDE 4.2, but that everyone should > change to using the folderview and forget about real desktops. > Probably control center will be fixed by KDE 4.2. It's > debatable whether Dolphin will ever have the usability that > KDE 3.5 Konqueror had, but if it does it won't be until KDE 4.2 > at the earliest. F9 already includes a usable KMenu to replace > the KDE 4.0 joke, although the usable KMenu is not the default. > > I'm not a KDE developer but I do have users that need to get > work done and they are not interested in a religious conversion > to plasmoids. After reading a lot of KDE developer discussions > my best guess is that KDE 4.3 is the earliest possibility for > most KDE users, but no guarantees. > > This puts us in something of a quandary. F9 KDE 4.0 is hugely > annoying to most KDE users. F8 KDE 3.5 still works fine of > course but IIRC security updates will end in six months. > > QUESTION TO DEVELOPERS: Is there any hope of a full KDE 3.5 > in F10, plus an upgrade path from F8 to F10 that preserves > KDE 3.5 configurations? Hard as it is to say, I must agree with you in regard to current KDE 4.x. Too many bugs and too many missing features, applications and configuration options. I've lost track of how many bugs I opened or added info to and still have many more documented here to open. Most of them about very basic things. I'm a big fan of KDE for years, but I'm really missing my old (but working) KDE 3.5.x. I hate to say all that, not only because I like KDE very much, but because I'm aware of the huge amount of work done by the developers. I think KDE 4 will be a very good desktop environment when it's ready, but it's not ready at its current state and should not have been released so early, I think. The way it is now, it causes a bad first impression in novice users and disappoint the old and experienced ones. Too sad... []'s Marcelo -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
