Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10? I want it too !

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Jun 21 11:16:20 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 10:48 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 20 June 2008 23:53:47 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > I saw no one stating nothing like that. The blame some people have put
> > on Fedora was for shipping an incomplete KDE4 when there was the option
> > to ship the fully functional KDE 3.5.9. These people said that Fedora
> > should have waited for KDE4 to become more stable/functional before
> > opting to include it in Fedora.
> > That's all, and even that is arguable.
> 
> Most of the really bad things about KDE4 were fixed about a week after release 
> of F9.  I consider that pretty good.  OK, the desktop can't, at present, be 
> used in just the same way as we have done before, but everything is 
> available, so is it really such a big deal?  We have been told that even that 
> is fixed in 4.1, which is only a few weeks away.
> 
> My first reaction to finding that I didn't have desktop icons for my nfs 
> shares was a feeling of loss, yet I can open those shares in either dolphin 
> or konqueror, so it's really no more than a minor inconvenience.  The same 
> goes for most of the other things that are 'missing'.  Work-arounds exist, 
> while work goes on to fix the situation.
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FWIW...I found that this behavior stopped when I went to autofs mounting
anyway so it's no loss.

Craig




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