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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Jan 2008 18:22 UTC

Ars reviews KDE 4.0.0: "KDE 4.0 was officially released last week after extensive development. The long-awaited 4.0 release ushers in a new era for the popular open-source desktop environment and adds many intriguing new features and technologies. Unfortunately, the release comes with almost as many new bugs as it does features, and there is much work to be done before it sparkles like the 3.5.x series." They were also at the KDE 4.0 release event.

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RE[13]: Comments Unfair

by borker on Wed 23rd Jan 2008 13:53 UTC in reply to "RE[12]: Comments Unfair"

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Let me make absolutely certain that I'm clear on this point:

something you don't seem to mind when you're making the points but back away from when other request the same of you... but I digress...

KDE is intended to be a DE usable by regular users.

Yup. And if a regular user grabs a distro and picks KDE as the DE they'll get a powerful, configurable, feature rich desktop. KDE 3.5.

But you believe that to be qualified to judge whether it should have been released for general consumption (emphasis added)

Where is it available for general consumption??? From source? from dev builds in a few distros? This is not an operating system that comes pre-installed on computers from best buy and will be in the hands of joe uers hours after its tagged. You keep trying to phrase the discussion in terms of commercial software when that just doesn't apply to a community developed project that will by and large be deployed to the users through 3rd parties. If you go to the KDE web site and go to the download section http://kde.org/download/ you'll see a list of distros that package dev builds and source code. How is this 'generally available'? Without the (repeated) statements of the developers the very nature of what you have to do to get 4.0 alone should indicate to you that it's not available for general consumption yet. But it is feature complete, there are no show stoppers and there is an audience for it, so it was time to release.

one must possess a deep technical knowledge and have hands on experience with the development of large projects. Correct? And you don't think that there is anything nonsensical about that position?

your original assumptions were flawed so your conclusion above is invalid.

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