--- On Sat, 3/13/10, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: mike cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is KDE dead ? Was Re: Stable Release Updates
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12:45 PM
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Gene
Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net>
wrote:
> FWIW, I am happily running the last kde-4 stuff you
shipped to F10. Other
> than I can crash kmail by standing on the + key for a
while, it hasn't
> dirtied its playground ever. However, one of the
more recent updates managed
> to kill OOo-3.2 and I had to remove it completely and
re-install it to get
> the office menu's back. Used to be that could be
edited by mere mortals, but
What is the view of current users of KDE 4.4.0 in
F12? Is it now a
really good desktop that has everything a user could wish
for, easily
customisable, and good support for plasma widgets,
customised desktop
icons to launch programs, and easy to navigate to what you
want to
run?
--
mike c
--
I'll tell you my unbiased $0.02 of the trend.
1) I don't have a problem with either Gnome/KDE I have both on my machines and use
either one, but lately I have been using KDE a little more
2) In Fedora 9, KDE was unusable, even though I tested it in rawhide and got to know its
ins and outs a bit. Also the machine I wanted to use it in, KDE simply did not load, for
Fedora 10, the same story, so I used GNOME there on that machine. Now that machine which
did not like KDE on Fedora 9, Fedora 10, it ran KDE for Fedora 11 for a little while now
it is running rawhide and has KDE and it is working beautifully except:
(1) that nepo???? crap is annoying
(2) Good that Fedora 12 has kept using k3b 1.0.5 because the k3b 1.68, k3b 1.70 are not
*that good*, only thing I see working well is kile 2.0.b3 and still beta. The k3b does
not see the audio codecs and gives me the mp3 error frequently(it is problem on Rawhide
though) on Fedora 12 this is fine.
(3) The old KDE 3.5.X Digital clock is still missed, The new clock is OK, I know it is
*JUST a CLOCK*, but I really liked the old one as opposed to the one that is out there.
There's not much I can do, because BUGZILLA, RFE's, whatever, people dont give a
fsck about a clock and I wish more people would join me and ask for the old digital clock
which looked beautiful as opposed to the one that is present.
GNOME is at a comfort zone as I run it on one machine, but *WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL
HAPPEN* when Gnome decides to test out a major change(s), hope it is not like the switch
to KDE 4.0 because it was not FUN :(
Regards,
Antonio