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.
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 so it will use the most updated KDE 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
Greg wrote:
Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
So why not have KDE 3 also? KDE 4 is not really useable as of yet.
Fedora has always been Bleeding Edge so it will use the most updated KDE 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
And also no contributors stepped up and said they'd build/maintain the parallel install packages which the current KDE maintainers said would be a big task. It was suggested that someone build them for rpmfusion/livna.
Andrew Farris spake thusly:
And also no contributors stepped up and said they'd build/maintain the parallel install packages which the current KDE maintainers said would be a big task. It was suggested that someone build them for rpmfusion/livna.
What about KDE-RedHat? Are they still around?
Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
Andrew Farris spake thusly:
And also no contributors stepped up and said they'd build/maintain the parallel install packages which the current KDE maintainers said would be a big task. It was suggested that someone build them for rpmfusion/livna.
What about KDE-RedHat? Are they still around?
here here.
-- Rex
Scott (angrykeyboarder <geekboy <at> angrykeyboarder.com> writes:
What about KDE-RedHat? Are they still around?
Yes (Rex Dieter is still maintaining it), but it is not going to provide KDE 3 for Fedora 9 and later.
The kde-redhat packages have been mostly merged with the official Fedora ones. Kde-redhat now provides backports of the Fedora 9 KDE 4 packages for Fedora 8 in the unstable repository. There are also KDE updates (newer KDE 3 releases than the ones included) for RHEL.
But downgrading KDE was never kde-redhat's job. :-) It would also be impractical: version numbers, package obsoletions etc. all work one way only.
Kevin Kofler
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.
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.
Please help make it more usable then. The official answer to this question is at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/KDE4FAQ. In short, no.
Rahul
Rahul Sundaram spake thusly:
Please help make it more usable then. The official answer to this question is at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/KDE4FAQ. In short, no.
"No" what?
Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
Rahul Sundaram spake thusly:
Please help make it more usable then. The official answer to this question is at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/KDE4FAQ. In short, no.
"No" what?
No kde3 desktop for F9. Really, read the KDE4FAQ, it hopefully addresses your questions and concerns.
If not, ask more.
-- Rex
Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
Rahul Sundaram spake thusly:
Please help make it more usable then. The official answer to this question is at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/KDE4FAQ. In short, no.
"No" what?
Oh, come on. I gave you a link. Read it... really.
Rahul
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