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kde 4.0 problems

kde 4.0 problems

Posted Jul 31, 2008 11:20 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525)
In reply to: kde 4.0 problems by hyartep
Parent article: GNOME 3.0 worries

KDE 4.0 is more a PR disaster than a technology disaster. It should have been KDE 3.9 or KDE 3.99, a "sneak preview" for ordinary users, the base of development for other people. Apparently, the inner working of KDE 4 is sufficiently better that projects like kdenlive ditch their KDE 3 support, and go straight to KDE 4 for the next release.

That's how it should work. I agree that for normal users, KDE 4.2 is probably the best time to switch over - KDE 4.1 is some sort of "beta" quality for normal users - good enough to work with it long enough to find the more subtle bugs. KDE 4 has certainly someone with a vision driving it forward.


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