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

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 00:30 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 14:58 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> > On Sat June 14 2008 14:21:29 Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > > stay here and write many, many bug reports, rally the troops in hopes of
> > > making KDE 4.X the best KDE that is possible, take the positives the good
> > > things and try to turn your face to bad things, the things you do not like
> > > about KDE.  In all the bad, there has to be something good.  Okular is very
> > > good.  Evince is also.  I can use either or to view multiple document
> > > formats, ie., dvi, pdf, ps, etc.  . Let the battle to which desktop in
> > > Fedora 9 or higher begin, which one earns your respect and choice after
> > > all, you can make other statements that can make more impact.
> > 
> > There is reason to hope that in a couple of years KDE 4.x will be better
> > than KDE 3.5, but for now KDE 4.x is unproductive for most users.
> > 
> > Distros that don't provide KDE 3.5 for their KDE users while KDE 4.x is
> > being developed will simply lose most of their KDE users.  That is not a
> > good thing for Fedora and that is not a good thing for Red Hat.  And there
> > are things I'd rather be doing than migrating a bunch of installations to
> > some other distro.
> 
> Installing CentOS tomorrow. I've got almost 1,500 members and
> participating organizations in KDE's PIM Kaddressbook for our
> Non-Profit. Can't do without it. I understand that it isn't in KDE4 as
> of yet. No support for KDE3 so I gotta dance with who brung me. 
> 
> My own two cents is that it might have been better if KDE3 been left in
> by default and introduce KDE4 into testing. That approach could've kept
> people, like myself, putting up with all the other blowups. Fedora, You
> all have just gone past the point of audience participation for me. This
> is a damn sad day, but it's been one heckuva ride. 
----
Ric,

Please don't get sucked into being misinformed.

Kaddressbook is in Fedora 9 and it is still the same old 3.5.9 version
that has been around and it hasn't been updated to KDE-4 yet. The entire
suite of KDE-PIM applications are still 3.5.x

The issues of KDE-4 are the ones that we have been talking about - user
space and the Desktop and they are mostly marginal and Fedora 9/KDE-4
are indeed usable.

Nothing wrong at all with CentOS-5 or RHEL-5. I"m just saying if you are
driving your decision based on whether you can use Kaddressbook on
Fedora 9, then there's no reason to go to CentOS

Craig