No KDE 3.5.x in F9?

Scott (angrykeyboarder) geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Tue Apr 1 15:17:42 UTC 2008


Greg spake thusly:

> Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
>> The "other guys" (i.e. Mandriva, openSUSE & Ubuntu) also have KDE 4 in
>> their beta, but they also have the more stable (and useable) KDE 3 as
>> well.
>>
>> KDE 4 looks great, but it beyond buggy (I've tried it in all of the
>> above distros).  Fedora is no exception. I was using it yesterday and
>> it's a disaster. You could spend all day filing bug reports. :)
>>
>> So why not have KDE 3 also? KDE 4 is not really useable as of yet.
>>
>>
>>
> Fedora has always been Bleeding Edge

This I'm aware of. It's one of the reasons I like it. :)

> so it will use the most updated KDE

But we're talking and entire Desktop Environment. Not just a few packages.

>> whether its stable or not they use that, ..Fedora an ubuntu an Mandriva
> are going/moving in different Directions ..KDE3 is in KDE4 just some
> parts of KDE to make KDE4 work as smooth as they can get it till
> KDE4.1.X comes out

Amd the mix of KDE3 and 4 is rather jarring frmo an asthetic point of 
view.

I lay most of the fault with KDE. They got a bit anxious when it came to 
releasing KDE 4. Frankly, I think it's still a "beta quality" product at 
best.


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