On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 14:58 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: >> On Sat June 14 2008 14:21:29 Antonio Olivares wrote: >> > stay here and write many, many bug reports, rally the troops in hopes of >> > making KDE 4.X the best KDE that is possible, take the positives the good >> > things and try to turn your face to bad things, the things you do not like >> > about KDE. In all the bad, there has to be something good. Okular is very >> > good. Evince is also. I can use either or to view multiple document >> > formats, ie., dvi, pdf, ps, etc. . Let the battle to which desktop in >> > Fedora 9 or higher begin, which one earns your respect and choice after >> > all, you can make other statements that can make more impact. >> >> There is reason to hope that in a couple of years KDE 4.x will be better >> than KDE 3.5, but for now KDE 4.x is unproductive for most users. >> >> Distros that don't provide KDE 3.5 for their KDE users while KDE 4.x is >> being developed will simply lose most of their KDE users. That is not a >> good thing for Fedora and that is not a good thing for Red Hat. And there >> are things I'd rather be doing than migrating a bunch of installations to >> some other distro. > > Installing CentOS tomorrow. I've got almost 1,500 members and > participating organizations in KDE's PIM Kaddressbook for our > Non-Profit. Can't do without it. I understand that it isn't in KDE4 as > of yet. No support for KDE3 so I gotta dance with who brung me. Kaddressbook uses a plaintext open format for its data, I am sure other apps can open it > My own two cents is that it might have been better if KDE3 been left in > by default and introduce KDE4 into testing. That approach could've kept > people, like myself, putting up with all the other blowups. Fedora, You > all have just gone past the point of audience participation for me. This > is a damn sad day, but it's been one heckuva ride. > > Happy Trails, Ric KDE4 was in testing first. All the risks were very clear before the release. Everyone is responsible to make an informed decision before upgrading, regardless of the operating system -- 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
