re: Kubuntu - KDE3 dropped [LWN.net]

re: Kubuntu - KDE3 dropped

Posted Oct 26, 2008 17:34 UTC (Sun) by mgb (guest, #3226)
In reply to: re: Kubuntu - KDE3 dropped by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate available

Big mistake by Kubuntu. KDE 4 has some interesting ideas and is perhaps suitable for bleeding edge Fedora but KDE 4 is certainly not ready for prime time.

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re: Kubuntu - KDE3 dropped

Posted Oct 27, 2008 6:53 UTC (Mon) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link]

OK, that is your opinion.

You can always keep using 8.04 which has 3.5.10 now.

Or just switch to Debian Lenny.

Kubuntu had to move on at some point and a most people think that time has definately come.

re: Kubuntu - KDE3 dropped

Posted Oct 28, 2008 14:07 UTC (Tue) by Janne (guest, #40891) [Link]

"KDE 4 is certainly not ready for prime time."

Sure it is. I'm running it on my laptop, and I can't really see any major
issues. I think the complaint about KDE4 not being "ready" is about KDE4
not being identical to KDE3. Well, it will never be.

It's like the complaints about GNOME2 vs. the "old GNOME". Or OS X vs. Mac
OS9. The change was substantial, and people complained. But in the end, the
result was a system that was clearly superior than the old.

KDE4 is now 10 months old. 10 months. Give it time. It's growing fast :).