I am still using KDE, simply because I am used to it. However, I am not very happy about what happend after KDE-3.5, I guess I am still using it because I am not interested in learning GNOME/Xfce/Whatever. - KDE4 uses quite *a lot* of memory. Instead of 75mb used after start, I am now at 200mb - which is quite a lot keeping in mind I still own a laptop with only 512mb ram, and a desktop PC with 384mb for my father (which already complaind about low performance after upgrading from 3.5->4.3) - KDE4 is buggy. Until kde-4.3 things improved slow but steadily. KDE-4.4 seems more buggy than 4.3 again :/ - Too short alpha/beta cycles. KDE alpha releases usually are not use-/testable because so broken. Beta releases are up only a very short period of time, so its quite unlikely a bug you report during beta1/2 will be fixed in the final release, simply because there's not enough time left, to do the quality houskeeping. Maybe introducing beta3/4 wouldn't be a bad idea. Don't get me wrong, I am still very grateful for what KDE devs did, and that I get such a great thing for free (as speech), but overall its sad quality has become so bad. - Clemens 2010/3/13 Mail Lists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > I'm curious how many current KDE users we have - what percent of our > install base? And what percent of the desktop install base ? > > Since the 3.5 -> 4.0 KDE pushathon, everyone I know who was a KDE user > (myself included, and Linus too!) switched to gnome and none has yet > gone back. > > At least a part of the fuss about updates seems to be driven by KDE > wanting to be faster paced than the rest - I'm curious what percent of > our install base this actually represents today? > > For me there were only 2 things disruptive I presently recall - the > last was F11 kmail no longer working after recent update - and the > devastatingly bad 3.5 -> 4.0 premature release. > > I actually like the current general pace - its stable but we get > decent flow (tho it has slowed somewhat over the 12-18 months or so it > seems) of upstream updates/bug fixes and largely when appropriate larger > version bumps. Tho things like firefox lag too much imho - but I no > longer care as I now use chrome which is way way better. > > Sure there are little hiccups here and there but overall things are > non-disruptive and decently up to date - and that is the right balance. > > Congrats fedora management, redhat and contributors - and thank you. > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
