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Re: KDE 4
by Ross Boylan on Saturday 15/Mar/2008, @17:39

I am puzzled by the statement that the limitations of the early KDE4 releases were communicated clearly. I was struck that the announcement http://kde.org/announcements/4.0/ did <em>not</em> communicate such limitations, when it was clear to me from discussions here that 4.0 was not ready for prime time.

I certainly agree that communicating the limitations is important, but it seems to me it could be done more clearly. Although there is a natural tendency to want to accentuate the best features, one of the charms of free software is that there are fewer financial pressures (and fewer marketers) leading to that bias.

Maybe a statement that KDE 4 is currently suitable for early adopters would convey the necessary flavor. It would also be useful to set expectations for users of KDE3; aside from general reliability/speed issues and the loss of kprinter, I'm not sure if there's any loss of functionality. I think you can run KDE 3 apps if necessary. I have not looked in the release notes; my point here is that the general publicity should include some hint about such matters.

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Re: KDE 4
by Aaron Seigo on Saturday 15/Mar/2008, @18:30

> it could be done more clearly

yep, you're absolutely right that it got missed in the 4.0 press release. =/ it was all over the community print around 4.0, though.

> general publicity should include some hint about such matters.

agreed. interestingly, it's not the general public that is giving us grief.

> and the loss of kprinter,

things are much better in kde 4.1 w/regard to printing..

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Re: KDE 4
by Morty on Sunday 16/Mar/2008, @02:59

>Maybe a statement that KDE 4 is currently suitable for early adopters would convey the necessary flavor.

This is kind of redundant, since KDE 4 still are only avaliable in forms used by early adopters. As source or in distributions experimental or extra repositories, all very unlikely to be used by non early adopeters. Until distributions starts to carry KDE 4 in their default installations, it stays in the realm of early adopters.

If I'm not mistaken Fedora is going to be the first, and that's a distribution catering to early adopters by trying to stay on the bleeding edge of new software.

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