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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Status of Quanta and KDE 4
From:       James Ellis <james () webqs ! com>
Date:       2008-01-23 22:14:06
Message-ID: 200801240914.07119.james () webqs ! com
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Hi

KDE4.0 has a few bugs that cause some instability now and again (at least for 
me) -- although from each update (I'm using Kubuntu PPA Packages) the 
stability is getting much much better. If you are ok with Plasma crashing a 
couple of times a day then go for it, otherwise wait for 4.1 and use 3.5.x 
instead.

I run Quanta fine in KDE4.0, the only difference being that KDE3 apps don't 
use the Oxygen icon set and window widgets (except the Kwin title bar), which 
is no biggy. Another issue presents itself with Kwalletmanager (3) crashing, 
which takes down kded (3) causing dcop to fail, causing Quanta projects to 
become unusable until a kded restart. I believe this is known on bugs.kde.org 
and is being looked at.

Speaking of Kdevelop, I used it for quite a while when Quanta became so 
unstable as to cause 90%+ CPU usage, although recently I've come back to the 
latest Quanta which seems to fix some of the stability issues. Plus Kdevelop 
was taking about 2-5 minutes to read the same project directory then 
crashing -- that Quanta takes 30 seconds doing. I hope that won't be an issue 
when Quanta starts to use the Kdevelop platform

So yeah, +1 from me on not rushing into releasing KDE4 port until it is on par 
or nearing that of the current 3.5 version.

Thanks
James



On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:31:44 pm Eric Laffoon wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2008 12:17 pm, Mark Ziegler wrote:
> > Hello list,

>
> > Will it be ready for kde 4.1?
>
> I hope so, but frankly I'm a lot more interested in developing a really
> great package that's more than just a quick and dirty port. We could have
> done that already, but then why upgrade? In fact you can run KDE3 apps just
> fine in KDE4. I think doing it right is more important than doing it just
> because. 

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