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Maybe there should be a second "final" beta
by J. J. Ramsey on Tuesday 26/Sep/2000, @19:25
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| KDE 1.94 is reliable enough so that I can use as my daily desktop, but there are still quite a few bugs and things that don't work quite right. I've crashed Konqueror when making a file association, KDE "legacy" themes are more memory hungry on my system than the original GTK+ themes they are based on, and Kmenuedit is a bit braindead; if I want to create a menu item that I can make a working kicker panel launcher from, I have to type "Application" in the debatably necessary "Type:" field. What's up with that? In short, there are a lot of niggling little bugs that are too easy to find. If the KDE developers put out another beta or a prerelease, they could double-check that they've got all the showstoppers before they release the final, production-ready version. |
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Re: Maybe there should be a second "final" beta
by KDE User on Tuesday 26/Sep/2000, @20:27
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KDE 2.0 is not the end of the line. It's time for a release, NOW. It's as simple as that, after two years. There will always be bugs. Those bugs will be fixed. But there is no point in delaying KDE 2.0. KDE 2.0 is worthy and it's about time.
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Re: Maybe there should be a second "final" beta
by Stefan on Wednesday 27/Sep/2000, @01:01
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I agree that KDE 2 should be released soon but I also don't see the point to release a 2.0 version and then release a version 2.0.1 with bugfixes a few weeks later. The KDE 2 betas are getting better and better with every release but I still believe that a few more weeks of debugging and testing would not hurt anybody.
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Re: Maybe there should be a second "final" beta
by Andy Marchewka on Wednesday 27/Sep/2000, @06:26
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Hear, hear. The Linux world has traditionally been about honest development- and beta-cycles, with the hard-earned reputation that stable releases are stable. GNOME 1.0 did some serious damage to that reputation, during a time when KDE 1.X was getting more stable (and often faster) with each release.
I'd really rather see KDE build on their good reputation, if it only costs a couple of weeks.
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Re: Maybe there should be a second "final" beta
by J Blazevic on Wednesday 27/Sep/2000, @16:32
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It's toooo early!
I'm using 1.94 and it doesn't look any better than previous releases. Konqueror is pretty good (not excellent) for file management but for browsing is almost useless. It renders some pages very well, but it seems to me that khtml is slower than in earlier releases.Most of the websites cannot be seen properly so I have to start bloody netscape to see some of them.Until Konqi shows majority of websites correctly it would definetely not be considered as a serious browser. Kwin and kicker are different story. They swap so much space that's unbelievable. Few nights ago, I was watching a movie and when I returned to computer they swapped about 90 Mb altogether.
Basicaly my opinion is, don't rush the release to catch Gnome as they wind up with the foundation and stuff,just do what you do the best "Create great code". No matter what happened I'm with you guys
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Re: Maybe there should be a second "final" beta
by Christian A Strømmen on Saturday 30/Sep/2000, @08:53
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Agree to the fullest. KDE2 is getting more and more stable each day. But it is NOT stable enough for a release. Let's use a couple of more weeks on it. A couple of more weeks with working will give the developers less trouble later when the masses start using it and pointing at the bugs that are there...
ps. konqueror didn't even render this page properly (1.94, and yes, compiled from src)
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