Star Fedora Developers on KDE4
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 17th Feb 2008 20:15 UTC, submitted by Jonathan Roberts
Fedora Core "KDE 4 is seen by many to be the next big step on the free software desktop, while others think releasing 4.0 in its current condition was misleading and a mistake. Either way, it's an innovative release and inline with Fedora's goal of providing the latest and greatest free software it is set to be the default KDE environment in the next major release of Fedora. We caught up with two members of the KDE SIG to talk about the work they're doing to get it ready for release, their own opinions on the software and what they think about the progress made by Fedora in getting over its GNOME centric reputation."
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RE: Unusable. Unready.
by elsewhere on Mon 18th Feb 2008 03:26 UTC in reply to "Unusable. Unready."
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While those of us who have actually tried to use it on a daily basis, for doing real work, have simply found it to be unusable in its current form.


I use it on a daily basis for doing work, and have since 4.0 was released. It's fine. It may not have the fit and polish that 3.5.x does, but it works. When I come across the odd glitch, I report it, because that's what the devs are looking for.

And for those apps that are missing from KDE 4.x, the KDE 3.5.x ones work just fine within KDE4, as do GTK apps, etc.

Really, it's not that bad. It doesn't crash. It doesn't flake out. It doesn't eat your children. It's a starting point, and it portends many good things to come... ;)

Having said all that, I'll agree that it may not be ideal for production use, but then it was never positioned as that.

And that's not the market Fedora targets, so all is well.

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