Reverting from KDE4 to KDE3 (was Switching to KDE)

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 01:22:06 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:28 PM, linux guy <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Eric <spamsink at scoot.netis.com> wrote:
>> > At 05:30 PM 9/29/2008, Craig White wrote:
>> >
>> >>>>>>
>> >>
>> >> In short, it was understood that KDE-4 was less than finished and even
>> >> with the release of KDE 4.1, there would still be significant feature
>> >> regression. It was a decision made by the KDE-Fedora team.
>> >
>> > <<<<<
>> >
>> > What is the accepted way to revert from KDE 4.x back to the latest KDE
>> > 3.x
>> > revision, for F9?
>>
>> The only way I know of to do so now is to compile it yourself.
>
>
> I just switched back to KDE3.x by reinstalling F8.   What a relief.  It is a
> lot of work to do, but well worth it in my mind.  Regardless of who is or
> isn't at fault or if there was a communication issue, KDE4.1 isn't ready for
> everyday use, at least not how I envision everyday use.


1. The only more that could be done was for the KDE team to take out a
full page ad in one or more publications

2. "read for everyday desktop" is high subjective

3. After having tried KDE 4 and deciding that it wasn't for you, you
did the best thing in returning to 8.


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