kde 4.0 problems

Posted Jul 31, 2008 10:03 UTC (Thu) by hyartep (guest, #53194)
Parent article: GNOME 3.0 worries

As I see it, the only problem with KDE 4.0 is that it should be called KDE 3.9.

It was well stated the 4.0 version is not suited for joe average user, but as preview and
version from which applications should begin to stabilise. Unfortunately, everybody was eager
to try it out and forgot that it was not expected to be super stable and finnished.

Now 4.1 is far better (it is published, along with KDE-PIM, but some apps, that are not direct
part of KDE, such as Koffice or Amarok are not ready yet).
And probably 4.2 will be great with most apps ready (these are just my expectations).

kde 4.0 problems

Posted Jul 31, 2008 11:20 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525) [Link]

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.