Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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I got the update through Fedora and there was a mismatch from KDE 3 to KDE
4.0. ---
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it's really hard to stay positive about the efforts of downstreams
when they wander around feeling they should be above reproach while
simultaneously hurting our (theirs and ours) users in a rush to be
more bad ass bleeding edge than any other cool dude distro in town
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Fedora messed the update from 3.5 to 4.0 and Linus had to use Gnome .. big
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I agree with Aaron that Fedora acted irresponsibly by forcing the
switch to 4.0, and those kinds of decisions certainly hurt both Fedora
and KDE.
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I don't think you can blame Linus for not wanting to use KDE 4.0 and
not having a choice to use KDE 3.x in Fedora when other distros like
Suse had managed this feat without any problems. Fedora is junk for
KDE
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From a comment by nononononononononono (which makes a lot of sense):
Wow. Please tell me you're not trying to pass off blame onto distributions
for using your final release software. It would have been easy to avoid
the frustration of distros being in "a rush to be more bad ass bleeding
edge than any other cool dude distro in town." You simply could have
informed distributions and users that KDE4 was not ready for everyday use
until KDE4.2. You could have put it in big bold letters on the KDE
website. You could have even written it on the default desktop background.
Distributions may still have used it, but then at least you could
reasonably claim some plausible deniability. To try and place blame on
distributions at this point for your mishandled release strategy is silly.
I also wrote a reply of my own:
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/choices-and-punishment.html?showCommen...
Kevin Kofler