F8 update kills KDE

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 23:10 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Anne Wilson <cannewilson <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> > I, too, have certain very specific needs to make my work-path pleasant.  I 
> > couldn't work out how to get it as I wanted, but with the help of developers 
> > it is doing so nicely.
> > 
> > I fear you are right, but I hope that many people will have some patience and 
> > give the new ways a fair trial.
> 
> Thanks for your trust.
> 
> We're doing what we can to make Plasma fully usable in Fedora 9. For example, I 
> just applied a patch from the openSUSE branch which makes moving applets in the 
> panel possible, see:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439587
> 
> I know the developers from upstream KDE and from openSUSE and other 
> distributions are also hard at work fixing the usability regressions, in fact 
> we got a lot of those fixes for free with the 4.0.3 upgrade thanks to the 
> Plasma backports which were done in upstream KDE, and several of the patches we 
> apply to KDE 4 are also their work.
> 
> For those who feel Fedora 9 is not ready for them yet, I recommend to simply 
> stay on Fedora 8, nobody forces you to upgrade right now, Fedora 8 will get 
> updates until 1 month after the release of Fedora 10. Meanwhile, Fedora 9 will 
> also get upgrades, so you don't necessarily have to wait for Fedora 10 either. 
> We are planning to push KDE 4.1 as a Fedora 9 upgrade once it's available, I 
> hope that will work out, because it will be a big improvement.
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thanks Kevin

I appreciate your efforts and I am definitely a KDE user.

Craig