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Subject: Re: KDE4 and KRDC4 usability
From: Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date: 2008-11-23 10:47:45
Message-ID: 200811231147.46071.jospoortvliet () gmail ! com
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On Sunday 23 November 2008 01:49:00 Robert Knight wrote:
> > These things have been/will be fixed in KDE 4.2, which is the first
> > KDE 4 release targeting the 'common user'. Blame your distribution for
> > shipping 4.1.x by default, and breaking stuff by backporting things
> > from the 4.2 branch.
>
> Jos, that is ridiculous. What else are distributors of
> up-to-date-but-not-bleeding-edge distributions supposed to ship?
> We're not supporting KDE 3.5 any more and 4.2 was still very much in
> unstable development when they were rolling packages. Most
> distributions are doing the best they can with the difficult choices
> which they were presented with.
I agree choices are difficult right now - and there is the pressure on
distributions to ship the latest & greatest, of course. But unless you have
the resources Suse has, shipping KDE 4.1 as default instead of 3.5.10 WILL get
you in trouble. Let alone shipping pre-beta stuff like amarok 2.0 and (heaven
forbid!) KOffice 2.0 right now. I really believe the distribtions like Kubuntu
and Mandriva should've shipped 3.5.10+ one more time. But it's their call.
>
> Regards,
> Robert.
>
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font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Sunday 23 November 2008 01:49:00 Robert \
Knight wrote:<br> > > These things have been/will be fixed in KDE 4.2, which is \
the first<br> > > KDE 4 release targeting the 'common user'. Blame your \
distribution for<br> > > shipping 4.1.x by default, and breaking stuff by \
backporting things<br> > > from the 4.2 branch.<br>
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> Jos, that is ridiculous. What else are distributors of<br>
> up-to-date-but-not-bleeding-edge distributions supposed to ship?<br>
> We're not supporting KDE 3.5 any more and 4.2 was still very much in<br>
> unstable development when they were rolling packages. Most<br>
> distributions are doing the best they can with the difficult choices<br>
> which they were presented with.<br>
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-qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I agree choices are difficult right now - and there is the \
pressure on distributions to ship the latest & greatest, of course. But unless \
you have the resources Suse has, shipping KDE 4.1 as default instead of 3.5.10 WILL \
get you in trouble. Let alone shipping pre-beta stuff like amarok 2.0 and (heaven \
forbid!) KOffice 2.0 right now. I really believe the distribtions like Kubuntu and \
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> Robert.<br>
><br>
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