On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Mike Bird <mgb-fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > QUESTION TO DEVELOPERS: Is there any hope of a full KDE 3.5 > in F10, plus an upgrade path from F8 to F10 that preserves > KDE 3.5 configurations? > > KDE 4.0 is incomplete and not suitable for most users. > > KDE 4.1 will be incomplete and not suitable for most users. > > The KDE devels are debating whether KDE 4.2 will be usable. > The pro-plasma crowd argue that it is theoretically possible > to implement a desktop by KDE 4.2, but that everyone should > change to using the folderview and forget about real desktops. > Probably control center will be fixed by KDE 4.2. It's > debatable whether Dolphin will ever have the usability that > KDE 3.5 Konqueror had, but if it does it won't be until KDE 4.2 > at the earliest. F9 already includes a usable KMenu to replace > the KDE 4.0 joke, although the usable KMenu is not the default. > > I'm not a KDE developer but I do have users that need to get > work done and they are not interested in a religious conversion > to plasmoids. After reading a lot of KDE developer discussions > my best guess is that KDE 4.3 is the earliest possibility for > most KDE users, but no guarantees. > > This puts us in something of a quandary. F9 KDE 4.0 is hugely > annoying to most KDE users. F8 KDE 3.5 still works fine of > course but IIRC security updates will end in six months. > > QUESTION TO DEVELOPERS: Is there any hope of a full KDE 3.5 > in F10, plus an upgrade path from F8 to F10 that preserves > KDE 3.5 configurations? > > --Mike Bird > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Any reason not to use F8? I still have F7 on my desktop.. works just fine. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
