On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:35 PM, James Rayner <iphitus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Some days ago I ran the updates for my Don't Panic install, which said that >> KDE 3.5.9 was being upgraded to KDE4. I let this go ahead having asked on the >> list if there were likely to be any problems with KDE4. >> >> I also have recently installed Fedora 9 which comes with KDE4 as default, so >> this is not a pop at Archlinux, but more with KDE4, which I'm finding is >> virtually unuseable. I'm posting this from Fedora Core 2, which has KDE >> 3.2.2-14.FC2.2.legacy Red Hat, and apart from the odd konqueror crash when >> accessing certain web sites, there are no problems. KDE4 is a whole different >> ball game. > > I hear a lot of this, but never any specifics. > > And a search for KDE or even KDE4 on the bug tracker doesn't bring > many bugs up. Not ideal search terms given the amount of apps, but > you'd expect more than 10 results for something "virtually unusable" > > So maybe it'd be a good idea to file bugs about this "virtually unusable" DE. > Or pull the old PKGBUILDs from SVN and create your own repo housing the old KDE packages.